Title
A multimodal encoding model applied to imaging decision-related neural cascades in the human brain.
Abstract
Perception and cognition in the brain are naturally characterized as spatiotemporal processes. Decision-making, for example, depends on coordinated patterns of neural activity cascading across the brain, running in time from stimulus to response and in space from primary sensory regions to the frontal lobe. Measuring this cascade is key to developing an understanding of brain function. Here we report on a novel methodology that employs multi-modal imaging for inferring this cascade in humans at unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. Specifically, we develop an encoding model to link simultaneously measured electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals to infer high-resolution spatiotemporal brain dynamics during a perceptual decision. After demonstrating replication of results from the literature, we report previously unobserved sequential reactivation of a substantial fraction of the pre-response network whose magnitude correlates with a proxy for decision confidence. Our encoding model, which temporally tags BOLD activations using time localized EEG variability, identifies a coordinated and spatially distributed neural cascade that is associated with a perceptual decision. In general the methodology illuminates complex brain dynamics that would otherwise be unobservable using fMRI or EEG acquired separately.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.059
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
EEG,fMRI,Simultaneous acquisition,Decision-making,Confidence
Developmental psychology,Functional magnetic resonance imaging,Resting state fMRI,Psychology,Human brain,Frontal lobe,Cognition,Sensory system,Electroencephalography,Encoding (memory)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
180
Part
1053-8119
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
25
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jordan Muraskin1122.00
Truman R. Brown29210.77
Jennifer M. Walz321.09
Tao Tu420.76
Bryan R. Conroy5576.19
Robin I. Goldman61038.75
Paul Sajda765189.86