The neural correlates of shared and individual experience.

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dc.creatorCoppola, Peter
dc.creatorOwen, Adrian M
dc.creatorMenon, David K
dc.creatorNaci, Lorina
dc.creatorStamatakis, Emmanuel A
dc.date2025-11-01T00:30:14Z
dc.date2026-01-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-03T03:15:14Z
dc.descriptionWe set out to explore the neural correlates of individual-specific experiences. We propose an approach through which we compute individual-specific dynamics of functional connectivity states. These dynamics do not require estimation of common states across individuals and can be directly related to dynamic behavioural ratings of subjective experience. To this end, we leverage a unique functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset where subjects listened to an engaging naturalistic story while awake and under different levels of anaesthesia, altering or abolishing conscious experience. We find that this method can detect correspondences between neural and subjective dynamics. We then show that the dynamics of the default mode network are more dissimilar between participants during awareness compared to unconsciousness and therefore may tend to underlie more personal experiences of the story. On the other hand, the auditory and posterior dorsal attention networks show higher inter-subject similarity in consciousness compared to unconsciousness and suggest that the dynamics of these networks support more "generalisable" experiences of the story. We further characterise individual-specific brain dynamics by showing that they are associated with higher complexity in consciousness, whilst conversely, brain dynamics underlying shared experience become less complex during the conscious experience of the story.
dc.descriptionThe Canada Excellence Research Chairs program (215063) (A.M.O.); The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (RCZB/072 RG93193) (A.M.O., D.K.M., and E.A.S.); Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre and NIHR Senior Investigator Awards (D.K.M.); The British Oxygen Professorship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (D.K.M.); Cambridge Trust (P.C.);vThe L’Oreal-Unesco for Women in Science Excellence Research Fellowship (L.N.); The Stephen Erskine Fellowship, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge (E.A.S).
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dc.identifier2399-3642
dc.identifierhttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/391733
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.122750
dc.identifier2399-3642
dc.identifier.urihttps://repo.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/174540
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.publisherDepartment of Psychology
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectMagnetic Resonance Imaging
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectConsciousness
dc.subjectBrain
dc.subjectYoung Adult
dc.subjectBrain Mapping
dc.subjectNerve Net
dc.titleThe neural correlates of shared and individual experience.
dc.typeArticle

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