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Using Informational Connectivity to Measure the Synchronous Emergence of fMRI Multi-voxel Information Across Time
Published on: July 1, 2014
Connectivity-based segregation of the human striatum predicts personality characteristics
Michael X Cohen1, Jan-Christoph Schoene-Bake, Christian E Elger
1Department of Epileptology and Life & Brain Center, Department of NeuroCognition, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Street 25, Bonn 53105, Germany. mikexcohen@gmail.com
Abstract:
We found that personality characteristics are linked to dissociable connectivity streams in the human brain. Whereas fiber tracts between a subcortical network, including the hippocampus and amygdala, and the ventral striatum predicted individual differences in novelty seeking, tracts between prefrontal cortex and the striatum predicted individual differences in reward dependence. These findings suggest that the strength of limbic-striatal connectivity may, in part, underlie human personality traits.
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