Barch et al. (2013)

Barch, D. M., Burgess, G. C., Harms, M. P., Petersen, S. E., Schlaggar, B. L., Corbetta, M., Glasser, M. F., Curtiss, S., Dixit, S., Feldt, C., Nolan, D., Bryant, E., Hartley, T., Footer, O., Bjork, J. M., Poldrack, R., Smith, S., Johansen-Berg, H., Snyder, A. Z., & Van Essen, D. C. (2013). Function in the human connectome: Task-fMRI and individual differences in behavior. NeuroImage, 80, 169–189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.033

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Barch et al. (2013)

Core argument: This is the primary design paper for the Human Connectome Project (HCP) behavioral and task-fMRI battery. It describes the rationale, task selection, paradigm design, and preliminary pilot data for all HCP tasks. It provides the authoritative reference for the HCP task battery used in the behavioral prediction analyses of this thesis.

HCP Task Battery (relevant to thesis):

Domain	Task	Contrasts relevant to thesis
Language	Story comprehension vs. Math	Story Acc, Story Median RT
Working Memory	N-back (2-back vs. 0-back)	Place Acc, Place RT (2-back Place condition)
Audition	NIH Toolbox Words-in-Noise	WIN score

Working Memory task details (§3.4.2.2):

• N-back design: 2-back vs. 0-back, with stimulus categories: Faces, Places, Tools, Body parts
• Place condition uses landscape photographs — selected for thesis as proxy for visuo-spatial working memory
• Block design, 25 images per block, variable response window
• Reliable bilateral frontoparietal and dorsal attentional network activation

Language task details (§3.4.2.1):

• Auditory story comprehension: adapted from Binder et al. (2011) Aesop’s fables paradigm
• Short stories (~30 sec) followed by 2-alternative forced-choice questions about semantic content
• Math baseline: adaptive difficulty arithmetic problems, same 2-AFC format
• Key measures: Story Accuracy (proportion correct) and Story Median Reaction Time

NIH Toolbox Auditory measures (Table 2):

• “Audition (Words in Noise)” listed as part of the sensory assessment battery
• Referenced via Zecker et al. (2013) for the WIN test methodology

Sample:

• Behavioral N = 77 (Phase I pilot); final S1200 release: N = 1200+ participants, ages 22–35 years
• Block design (not event-related) for efficiency and reliability across participants

Relevance to thesis:

• Primary citation for all HCP task descriptions in §3.4.2.1–3.4.2.3
• Justifies choice of the Story and 2-Back Place tasks as behavioral validators for the auditory dual-stream RSFC analyses
• Confirms the HCP task battery was designed to broadly sample neural systems including language, working memory, and audition

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BibTeX:

@article{barch2013,
  author    = {Barch, Deanna M. and Burgess, Gregory C. and Harms, Michael P. and
               Petersen, Steven E. and Schlaggar, Bradley L. and Corbetta, Maurizio and
               Glasser, Matthew F. and Curtiss, Sandra and Dixit, Sachin and
               Feldt, Cindy and Nolan, Dan and Bryant, Edward and Hartley, Tucker and
               Footer, Owen and Bjork, James M. and Poldrack, Russ and Smith, Steve and
               Johansen-Berg, Heidi and Snyder, Abraham Z. and Van Essen, David C.},
  title     = {Function in the human connectome: Task-{fMRI} and individual differences
               in behavior},
  journal   = {NeuroImage},
  year      = {2013},
  volume    = {80},
  pages     = {169--189},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.033}
}

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