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Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain

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  • Gustavo Deco

    (Universitat Pompeu Fabra
    Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)
    Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
    Monash University)

  • Diego Vidaurre

    (University of Oxford
    Aarhus University)

  • Morten L. Kringelbach

    (University of Oxford
    University of Oxford
    Aarhus University)

Abstract

A central challenge in neuroscience is how the brain organizes the information necessary to orchestrate behaviour. Arguably, this whole-brain orchestration is carried out by a core subset of integrative brain regions, a ‘global workspace’, but its constitutive regions remain unclear. We quantified the global workspace as the common regions across seven tasks as well as rest, in a common ‘functional rich club’. To identify this functional rich club, we determined the information flow between brain regions by means of a normalized directed transfer entropy framework applied to multimodal neuroimaging data from 1,003 healthy participants and validated in participants with retest data. This revealed a set of regions orchestrating information from perceptual, long-term memory, evaluative and attentional systems. We confirmed the causal significance and robustness of our results by systematically lesioning a generative whole-brain model. Overall, this framework describes a complex choreography of the functional hierarchical organization of the human brain.

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  • Gustavo Deco & Diego Vidaurre & Morten L. Kringelbach, 2021. "Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 5(4), pages 497-511, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nathum:v:5:y:2021:i:4:d:10.1038_s41562-020-01003-6
    DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-01003-6
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