Dissecting the roles of these diverse network patterns in cognition presents a significant challenge. In order to understand the influence of separate physiological patterns on cognition, examining a diverse array of behavior tasks will be necessary [4,20,23,26,27,30,56]. Investigating interactions during the learning and performance stages of complex tasks that manifest distinctive cognitive demands, such as encoding, retrieval, novelty, and flexibility, can reveal the specific network pattern(s) that are prevalent during these periods. Diverse behavioral tasks that accentuate particular cognitive processes, such as working memory or cue-guided retrieval, can provide the opportunity to unambiguously link network patterns to cognition. Common elements of different tasks that consistently engage the same network patterns for coordination of multi-regional activity can also provide similar evidence. Furthermore, this would also enable investigation of information represented in the joint ensemble activity in distant regions using decoding of activity during particular task phases that are associated with specific cognitive processes.
