Title
Cortical activities of single-trial P300 amplitudes modulated by memory load using simultaneous EEG-fMRI
Abstract
The functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) researches on working memory have found that activation of cortical areas appeared dependent on memory load, and event-related potentials (ERP) studies have demonstrated that amplitudes of P300 decreased significantly when working memory load increased. However, the cortical activities related with P300 amplitudes under different memory loads remains unclear. Joint fMRI and EEG analysis which fusions the time and spatial information in simultaneous EEG-fMRI recording can reveal the regional activation at each ERP time point. In this paper, we first used wavelet transform to obtain the single-trial amplitudes of P300 caused by a digital N-back task in the simultaneous EEG-fMRI recording as the ERP feature sequences. Then the feature sequences in 1-back condition and 3-back condition were introduced into general linear model (GLM) separately as parametric modulations to compare the cortical activation under different memory loads. The results showed that the average amplitudes of P300 in 3-back significantly decreased than that in 1-back, and the activities induced by ERP feature sequences in 3-back also significantly decreased than that in the 1-back, including the insular, anterior cingulate cortex, right inferior frontal gyrus, and medial frontal gyrus, which were relevant to the storage, monitoring, and manipulation of information in working memory task. Moreover, the difference in the activation caused by ERP feature showed a positive correlation with the difference in behavioral performance. These findings demonstrated the locations of P300 amplitudes differences modulated by the memory load and its relationship with the behavioral performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1117/12.2080983
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
simultaneous EEG-fMRI,single-trial,P300,feature sequence,memory load
Computer vision,Neuroscience,Time point,Functional magnetic resonance imaging,Computer data storage,Working memory,Anterior cingulate cortex,Artificial intelligence,Medial frontal gyrus,Electroencephalography,EEG-fMRI,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9417
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
q zhang100.34
xiaojie zhao201.35
Chaozhe Zhu313412.30
xueqian yang400.34
Li Yao55320.09