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Changes in global and regional modularity associated with increasing working memory load

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, December 2014
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Title
Changes in global and regional modularity associated with increasing working memory load
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, December 2014
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00954
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Matthew L. Stanley, Dale Dagenbach, Robert G. Lyday, Jonathan H. Burdette, Paul J. Laurienti

Abstract

Using graph theory measures common to complex network analyses of neuroimaging data, the objective of this study was to explore the effects of increasing working memory processing load on functional brain network topology in a cohort of young adults. Measures of modularity in complex brain networks quantify how well a network is organized into densely interconnected communities. We investigated changes in both the large-scale modular organization of the functional brain network as a whole and regional changes in modular organization as demands on working memory increased from n = 1 to n = 2 on the standard n-back task. We further investigated the relationship between modular properties across working memory load conditions and behavioral performance. Our results showed that regional modular organization within the default mode and working memory circuits significantly changed from 1-back to 2-back task conditions. However, the regional modular organization was not associated with behavioral performance. Global measures of modular organization did not change with working memory load but were associated with individual variability in behavioral performance. These findings indicate that regional and global network properties are modulated by different aspects of working memory under increasing load conditions. These findings highlight the importance of assessing multiple features of functional brain network topology at both global and regional scales rather than focusing on a single network property.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 1%
Poland 1 1%
Unknown 84 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 19%
Student > Master 16 19%
Researcher 15 17%
Student > Postgraduate 6 7%
Other 5 6%
Other 17 20%
Unknown 11 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 21 24%
Neuroscience 20 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 6%
Engineering 4 5%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 23 27%
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#14,222,096
of 23,577,761 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#4,291
of 7,319 outputs
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#187,744
of 365,438 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#133
of 200 outputs
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