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  • Neural correlations are crucial for understanding neural coding.
  • Noise correlations (trial-to-trial variability) require knowledge of signal correlations (task selectivity similarity) for interpretation.
  • The application of this framework to large-scale brain networks remains under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between large-scale noise and signal correlations in human brain networks.
  • To determine how state-dependent changes in these correlations impact information coding.
  • To clarify the functional implications of aligned versus anti-aligned correlation changes.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a multitask human functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) dataset.
  • Examination of relationships between functional connectivity (noise correlations) and tuning similarity (signal correlations) across brain regions.
  • Assessment of how changes in correlation alignment affect information coding efficiency.

Main Results:

  • Task-state noise correlation changes (functional connectivity) often diverged from underlying signal correlation changes (tuning similarity).
  • Anti-aligned correlations (noise and signal changing in opposite directions) enhanced information coding.
  • Aligned correlations, predominantly increases, were associated with degraded information coding.

Conclusions:

  • State-dependent noise correlations significantly shape information coding in functional brain networks.
  • Interpreting functional connectivity changes necessitates understanding the underlying signal correlations.
  • Many observed increases in functional correlations across brain networks may impair information processing.