Title
Detection Of Motor Planning And Suppression With The Help Of Electroencephalography
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate, if it is possible to detect brain activity related to motor planning and suppression with the help of Electroencephalograms (EEG), the ultimate goal being, to simultaneously measure EEG and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Towards this end we engaged a delayed response task from an earlier fMRI study, thereby ensuring, as a first step, that the results of both EEG and fMRI would be directly comparable. Motor preparatory signals were recorded in seven subjects using 10-20-system fMRI compatible EEG equipment. The alpha and beta frequency bands of the EEG recordings were analyzed first individually and then on the group level. Using a non-parametric statistical test, significant clusters relating to motor planning were mainly found over the motor and posterior parietal cortex of the right hemisphere. Activity corresponding with motor suppression was exhibited over the parietal and occipital cortex, located mainly medially for the lower beta band (13-20Hz) and extended towards the right hemisphere for the alpha band. Active regions corresponded well to the ones revealed in our previous fMRI study. Simultaneous EEG and fMRI of this task in the future could thus provide us with combined information on timing (EEG), locality (fMRI) and activity characteristics (both) during motor planning and suppression.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090970
2011 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
posterior parietal cortex,electrodes,non parametric statistics,electroencephalography,planning,neuroscience
Conference
2011
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1557-170X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dieckgraeff Anita G100.34
A Lindner232.56
W. Rosenstiel3154.15
Bogdan Martin400.34