Use of connectotyping on task functional MRI data reveals dynamic network level cross talking during task performance
Task-based functional MRI (fMRI) has greatly improved understanding of brain functioning, enabling the identification of brain areas associated with specific cognitive operations. Traditional analyses are limited to associating activation patterns in particular regions with specific cognitive operat...
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Published in | Frontiers in neuroscience Vol. 16; p. 951907 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Lausanne
Frontiers Research Foundation
10.10.2022
Frontiers Media S.A |
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Summary: | Task-based functional MRI (fMRI) has greatly improved understanding of brain functioning, enabling the identification of brain areas associated with specific cognitive operations. Traditional analyses are limited to associating activation patterns in particular regions with specific cognitive operation, largely ignoring regional cross-talk or dynamic connectivity, which we propose is crucial for characterization of brain function in the context of task fMRI. We use connectotyping, which efficiently models functional brain connectivity to reveal the progression of temporal brain connectivity patterns in task fMRI. Connectotyping was employed on data from twenty-four participants (12 male, mean age 24.8 years, 2.57 std. dev) who performed a widely spaced event-related fMRI word vs. pseudoword decision task, where stimuli were presented every 20 s. After filtering for movement, we ended up with 15 participants that completed each trial and had enough usable data for our analyses. Connectivity matrices were calculated per participant across time for each stimuli type. A Repeated Measures ANOVA applied on the connectotypes was used to characterize differences across time for words and pseudowords. Our group level analyses found significantly different dynamic connectivity patterns during word vs. pseudoword processing between the Fronto-Parietal and Cingulo-Parietal Systems, areas involved in cognitive task control, memory retrieval, and semantic processing. Our findings support the presence of dynamic changes in functional connectivity during task execution and that such changes can be characterized using connectotyping but not with traditional Pearson’s correlations. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 This article was submitted to Brain Imaging Methods, a section of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience Reviewed by: Maya Visser, Jaume I University, Spain; Martin Fungisai Gerchen, University of Heidelberg, Germany Edited by: Roberto Esposito, ASUR Marche, Italy Deceased |
ISSN: | 1662-453X 1662-4548 1662-453X |
DOI: | 10.3389/fnins.2022.951907 |