Title
The Dynamic Brain Networks Of Motor Imagery: Time-Varying Causality Analysis Of Scalp Eeg
Abstract
Motor imagery (MI) requires subjects to visualize the requested motor behaviors, which involves a large-scale network that spans multiple brain areas. The corresponding cortical activity reflected on the scalp is characterized by event-related desynchronization (ERD) and then by event-related synchronization (ERS). However, the network mechanisms that account for the dynamic information processing of MI during the ERD and ERS periods remain unknown. Here, we combined ERD/ERS analysis with the dynamic networks in different MI stages (i.e. motor preparation, ERD and ERS) to probe the dynamic processing of MI information. Our results show that specific dynamic network structures correspond to the ERD/ERS evolution patterns. Specifically, ERD mainly shows the contralateral networks, while ERS has the symmetric networks. Moreover, different dynamic network patterns are also revealed between the two types of MIs, in which the left-hand MIs exhibit a relatively less sustained contralateral network, which may be the network mechanism that accounts for the bilateral ERD/ERS observed for the left-hand MIs. Similar to the network topologies, the three MI stages also appear to be characterized by different network properties. The above findings all demonstrate that different MI stages that involve specific brain networks for dynamically processing the MI information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1142/S0129065718500168
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
ERD/ERS, graph theory, motor imagery, time-varying network
Dynamic network analysis,Synchronization,Electroencephalography Phase Synchronization,Information processing,Pattern recognition,Nerve net,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Scalp,Electroencephalography,Motor imagery
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
1
0129-0657
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
22
Authors
15
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fali Li1348.53
Wenjing Peng220.38
Yuanling Jiang331.74
Limeng Song421.05
Yuanyuan Liao531.40
Chanlin Yi652.78
Luyan Zhang720.71
Yajing Si8234.73
Tao Zhang9124.31
Fei Wang1020340.33
Rui Zhang11335.81
Yin Tian1241.45
Yangsong Zhang137511.65
Dezhong Yao1435763.41
Peng Xu1572.47