Paper Info
Title
On optimal spatial filtering for the detection of phase coupling in multivariate neural recordings.
Abstract
Neuronal oscillations synchronize processing in the brain over large spatiotemporal scales and thereby facilitate integration of individual functional modules. Up to now, the relation between the phases of neuronal oscillations and behavior or perception has mainly been analyzed in sensor space of multivariate EEG/MEG recordings. However, sensor-space analysis distorts the topographies of the underlying neuronal sources and suffers from low signal-to-noise ratio. Instead, we propose an optimized source reconstruction approach (Phase Coupling Optimization, PCO).PCO maximizes the 'mean vector length', calculated from the phases of recovered neuronal sources and a target variable of interest (e.g., experimental performance). As pre-processing, the signal-to-noise ratio in the search-space is maximized by spatio-spectral decomposition. PCO was benchmarked against several competing algorithms and sensor-space analysis using realistic forward model simulations. As a practical example, thirteen 96-channel EEG measurements during a simple reaction time task were analyzed. After time-frequency decomposition, PCO was applied to the EEG to examine the relation between the phases of pre-stimulus EEG activity and reaction times.In simulations, PCO outperformed other spatial optimization approaches and sensor-space analysis. Scalp topographies of the underlying source patterns and the relation between the phases of the source activity and the target variable could be reconstructed accurately even for very low SNRs (-10dB). In a simple reaction time experiment, the phases of pre-stimulus delta waves (<0.1Hz) with widely distributed fronto-parietal source topographies were found predictive of the reaction times.From multivariate recordings, PCO can reconstruct neuronal sources that are phase-coupled to a target variable using a data-driven optimization approach. Its superiority has been shown in simulations and in the analysis of a simple reaction time experiment. From this data, we hypothesize that the phase entrainment of slow delta waves (<1Hz) facilitates sensorimotor integration in the brain and that this mechanism underlies the faster processing of anticipated stimuli. We further propose that the examined slow delta waves, observed to be phase-coupled to reaction times, correspond to the compound potentials typically observed in paradigms of stimulus anticipation and motor preparation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.025
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
BFGS,BP,CCAvReg,CI,CNV,CSD,cSPoC,ECoG,EEG,ICA,LDA,MEG,MI,nRT,PCA,PCO,RT,SEM,SSD,SNR,ta-MR,tf
Synchronization,Oscillation,Biological system,Delta wave,Computer science,Multivariate statistics,Cognitive psychology,Speech recognition,Entrainment (chronobiology),Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm,Electroencephalography,Spatial filter
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
157
1053-8119
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
G Waterstraat131.09
Gabriel Curio21220201.67
Vadim V Nikulin332527.80