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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Cortical topographic organization is crucial for perception and cognition.
  • Functional gradients reveal large-scale cortical organization principles.
  • The impact of naturalistic stimuli on these gradients is largely unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how naturalistic stimuli modulate cortical functional organization.
  • To assess macroscale functional organization using movie-fMRI.
  • To compare brain organization during naturalistic viewing versus resting states.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with naturalistic movie stimuli.
  • Identified principal gradients reflecting hierarchies in sensorimotor, visual, and auditory/language areas.
  • Analyzed the role of frontoparietal and default networks in heteromodal regions.

Main Results:

  • Identified distinct 'movie gradients' delineating hierarchical organization.
  • Demonstrated high reliability of movie gradients across different movie stimuli.
  • Found stronger correlations between movie gradient positions and cognitive scores compared to resting-state gradients.

Conclusions:

  • Movie gradients provide an ecologically valid model of cortical organization during active processing.
  • These hierarchies reflect a common brain state across diverse naturalistic conditions.
  • Cortical organization during dynamic, multimodal engagement is better represented by naturalistic stimuli.