We investigated the difference between the brain’s fractal dynamics during movie-watching and resting-state conditions using 7T fMRI data. During movie-watching, we find that the BOLD signal becomes more scale-invariant and self-similar than during the resting-state. This supports the idea that movie-watching evokes a state of optimal neural functioning that may better reflect the endogenous state of the brain than a fixed cross-hair. We also find that fractal properties differ greatly across functional networks, providing novel information about the temporal dynamics of each network during naturalistic processing. Overall, these findings advance understanding of both fractal dynamics and naturalistic viewing in fMRI.
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