With recent advances in ultra-high-field MRI hardware and sequence mechanisms, it has become possible to measure CBV-weighted fMRI signal across cortical layers. While initial proof-of-principle layer-fMRI studies in primary brain areas with conventional fMRI task designs are promising, layer-fMRI has not yet realized its full potential to map layer-dependent functional connectivity across large-scale brain networks. In this study, we investigate the applicability of CBV-weighted layer-fMRI to assess functional connectivity during resting-state and naturalistic tasks. We can map common resting-state networks and characterize their internal layer-dependent signatures with respect to directionality and cortical hierarchy.
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