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. 2021 Mar 24;41(12):2684–2702. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1713-20.2021

Table 2.

Summary of Pearson r and R2 results

Task-state FC
Resting-state FC
Pearson r R2 Pearson r R2
Overall 0.76 0.51 0.46 −0.29
Condition-wise 0.75 0.01 0.48 −1.71
Node-wise 0.77 0.48 0.46 −0.23
EMOTION:fear 0.76 0.52 0.41 −0.17
EMOTION:neut 0.76 0.51 0.38 −0.36
GAMBLING:win 0.87 0.73 0.52 −0.05
GAMBLING:loss 0.88 0.76 0.53 −0.05
LANGUAGE:story 0.67 0.05 0.31 −2.32
LANGUAGE:math 0.64 −0.16 0.27 −3.65
MOTOR:cue 0.68 0.43 0.53 0.21
MOTOR:lf 0.59 0.29 0.37 0.00
MOTOR:rf 0.56 0.25 0.36 −0.01
MOTOR:lh 0.57 0.26 0.37 −0.01
MOTOR:rh 0.55 0.23 0.34 −0.03
MOTOR:t 0.58 0.27 0.37 0.00
REASON.:rel 0.90 0.80 0.56 0.11
REASON.:match 0.90 0.81 0.57 0.13
SOCIAL:mental 0.90 0.80 0.51 −0.13
SOCIAL:rnd 0.89 0.78 0.53 −0.07
WM0bk:body 0.68 0.42 0.46 0.08
WM0bk:faces 0.72 0.48 0.40 0.02
WM0bk:places 0.75 0.53 0.51 0.16
WM0bk:tools 0.79 0.60 0.51 0.16
WM2bk:body 0.78 0.60 0.51 0.15
WM2bk:faces 0.78 0.59 0.42 0.04
WM2bk:places 0.72 0.47 0.47 0.11
WM2bk:tools 0.73 0.51 0.48 0.12

Pearson r and R2 prediction accuracy assessment results are reported across task-state FC and resting-state FC. Results comparing all predicted to actual activation values at once are included (“overall”), as well as results comparing prediction accuracy across conditions for each node separately (“condition-wise”) and prediction accuracy across nodes for each condition separately (“node-wise”). See Table 1 for descriptions of Pearson r versus R2 and condition-wise versus node-wise predictions. Node-wise comparisons for each task condition separately are included in the last 24 rows.

Mean condition-wise task-state FC R2 values were dragged down by regions with especially poor predictions because of mis-specified scales. Since mis-specified scales affect R2 but not Pearson r values, poor scaling of predictions can be detected when R2 predictions are much worse than Pearson r predictions. We found that 38 brain regions had R2 values below −1.0, meaning the predictions were 100% worse than the average activation across all task conditions for those regions. Notably, these same regions all had Pearson r values >0 (mean r = 0.43), demonstrating this was primarily a scaling issue. In contrast, 186 (of 360) brain regions had R2 >0.25, such that most brain regions exhibited overall accurate condition-wise predictions even when taking scale into account.