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Cheryl L Grady1, Douglas D Garrett
1Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M6A2E1, Canada, cgrady@research.baycrest.org.
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Recent work in neuroscience supports the idea that variability in brain function is necessary for optimal brain responsivity to a changing environment. In this review, we discuss a series of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in younger and older adults to assess age-related differences in variability of the fMRI signal. This work shows that moment-to-moment brain signal variability represents an important "signal" within what is typically considered measurement-related "noise" in fMRI. This accumulation of evidence suggests that moving beyond the mean will provide a complementary window into aging-related neural processes.
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