Resting-state functional brain connectivity best predicts the personality dimension of openness to experience.

ABSTRACT: Personality neuroscience aims to find associations between brain measures and personality traits. Findings to date have been severely limited by a number of factors, including small sample size and omission of out-of-sample prediction. We capitalized on the recent availability of a large database, together with the emergence of specific criteria for best practices in neuroimaging studies of individual differences. We analyzed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 884 young healthy adults in the Human Connectome Project (HCP) database. We attempted to predict personality traits from the "Big Five", as assessed with the NEO-FFI test, using individual functional connectivity matrices. After regressing out potential confounds (such as age, sex, handedness and fluid inte

SUBMITTER: Dubois J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6138449 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature