Predicting individual traits from unperformed tasks

Autor: Shachar Gal, Niv Tik, Michal Bernstein-Eliav, Ido Tavor
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: NeuroImage, Vol 249, Iss , Pp 118920- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1095-9572
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118920
Popis: Relating individual differences in cognitive traits to brain functional organization is a long-lasting challenge for the neuroscience community. Individual intelligence scores were previously predicted from whole-brain connectivity patterns, extracted from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data acquired at rest. Recently, it was shown that task-induced brain activation maps outperform these resting-state connectivity patterns in predicting individual intelligence, suggesting that a cognitively demanding environment improves prediction of cognitive abilities. Here, we use data from the Human Connectome Project to predict task-induced brain activation maps from resting-state fMRI, and proceed to use these predicted activity maps to further predict individual differences in a variety of traits. While models based on original task activation maps remain the most accurate, models based on predicted maps significantly outperformed those based on the resting-state connectome. Thus, we provide a promising approach for the evaluation of measures of human behavior from brain activation maps, that could be used without having participants actually perform the tasks.
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