Functional Connectivity Within the Fronto-Parietal Network Predicts Complex Task Performance: A fNIRS Study

Functional Connectivity Within the Fronto-Parietal Network Predicts Complex Task Performance: A fNIRS Study

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Performance in complex tasks is essential for many high risk operators.The achievement of such tasks is supported by high-level cognitive functions arguably involving functional activity and connectivity in a large ensemble of brain areas that form the fronto-parietal network.Here we aimed at determining whether the functional connectivity at rest within this Dry Oil network could predict performance in a complex task: the Space Fortress video game.Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) data from 32 participants were recorded during a Resting-State period, the completion of a simple version of Space Fortress (monotask) and the original version (multitask).The intrinsic functional connectivity within the fronto-parietal network (i.

e., during the Resting-State) was a significant predictor of performance at Space Fortress multitask but not at its monotask version.The same pattern was observed for the functional connectivity during the task.Our overall results suggest that Resting-State functional connectivity within the fronto-parietal network Containers could be used as an intrinsic brain marker for performance prediction of a complex task achievement, but not for simple task performance.