This study examined how sustained attention changes local correlations in brain activity. Researchers used fMRI to measure brain activity in 8 subjects during resting state, passive viewing, and an attentional tracking task. They analyzed changes in positive and negative local functional connectivity density between conditions in 90 brain regions and 8 functional networks. The results showed different patterns of changes in positive and negative correlations in attention networks, sensory and language networks, and the default mode network with increased attentional load.
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1. ”Sustained Attention Changes
Local Correlations in Brain
Activity"
João V. Dornas, Stepan Aleshin (PhD), Alexander Pastukhov (PhD), Jochen Braun (PhD)
Speaker: João V. Dornas, PhD candidate
Group: Prof. Jochen Braun - Cognitive Biology Group, Institute of Biology
INTRODUCTION METHODS (Experimental) METHODS (Mathematics) RESULTS 1
2. INTRODUCTION METHODS (Experimental) METHODS (Mathematics) RESULTS
RESTING STATE PASSIVE
VIEWING
TRACKING TRIALS
5.5 minutes run, per condition: (8 subjects x 4 runs)
10 trials
interleaved
EXPERIMENTAL PARADIGM
2
(8 subjects x 4 runs)
30 s 30 s
TRACKINGPASSIVE
3. INTRODUCTION METHODS (Experimental) METHODS (Mathematics) RESULTS
AAL Parcellation
Z = +18
90 Regions of Interest
(ROIS)
Credits:
N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, B. Landeau, D. Papathanassiou, F. Crivello, O. Etard, N. Delcroix, B. Mazoyer,
and M. Joliot. NeuroImage 2002. 15 :273-289
ANATOMICAL PARCELLATION
Colin27 (MNI152 space)
3
4. INTRODUCTION METHODS (Experimental) METHODS (Mathematics) RESULTS 4
FUNCTIONAL PARCELLATION
Hacker,C.D.,Laumann,T.O.,Szrama,N.P.,Baldassarre,A.,Snyder,A.Z.,Leuthardt,E.C.,&Corbetta,M.(2013). NeuroImage,82,616–633.
+47
+2
Magdeburg - 32 runs(8 subjectsx 4 runs) - Resting State
DAN VAN SMN VIS FPC LAN DMN AUD
17. INTRODUCTION METHODS (Experimental) METHODS (Mathematics) RESULTS
p-value Wilcoxon Ranksum Test
*mean of voxels equal to zero
17
POSITIVE
(+ ↓) (+ ↑)
NEGATIVE
(- ↓) (- ↑)
SMN
18 seeds
18. CONCLUSIONS
1. Attention Networks change differently
2. Sensory Networks and Language change the same way
3. Cognitive Network has no Negative Correlation change
4. Motor Network has no change
5. Default Mode Network changes like Ventral Attention Network
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POSITIVE
(+ ↓) (+ ↑)
0.8957 0.0003
0.0029 0.8364
0.1966 0.6932
0.3707 0.8162
8.29E-05 0.9626
0.8798 0.1824
5.56E-04 0.7746
0.9698 -*
NEGATIVE
(- ↓) (- ↑)
0.0814 1.17E-07
-* 0.0143
-* 0.1278
0.3593 0.0028
-* 0.0139
-* 9.27E-04
0.1616 4.69E-08
-* 0.006
FUNCTIONAL
PARCELLATION
DAN
VAN
SMN
VIS
FPC
LAN
DMN
AUD
ANATOMICAL
PARCELLATION
90 AAL ROIs
NEGATIVE
(- ↓) (- ↑)
0.3227 2.57E-06
NEGATIVE
(+ ↓) (+ ↑)
4.24E-07 0.3548
Editor's Notes
PRESENTATION:
NAME
ORIGIN
BACKGROUND
TEAM
LAB/INSTITUTE
BRIEF OVERVIEW OF PROJECT (fMRI, Attention)
1. AAL PARCELLATION AS CREATED USING COLIN27 BRAIN AS A REFERENCE.
2. COLIN27 WAS BUILD USING AS REFERENE THE MNI105 TEMPLATE BUT IS AN IMAGE GENERATED FROM ONLY ONE BRAIN, SCANNED 27 TIMES.
3. AAL PROCEDURE LABELED MANUALLY EACH ROI FOR EACH HEMISPHERE IN A 3D IMAGE, AND SAMPLED THE FINAL VOLUME ON MNI152 SPACE.
1. SANITY CHECK FOR FUNCTIONAL PARCELLATION.
THE GLOBAL PICTURE CLEARLY SHOWS A DIFFERENCE IN CHANGE BTW. CONTRASTS.
NON-PARAMETRIC TEST GIVES A SIGNIFICANT RESULT FOR INCREASE IN NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS.
WE CAN SEE IN THE PICTURES A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN POSITIVE CORRELATIONS IN BOTH CONTRAST.
NEVERTHELESS THEY DO NOT HAPPEN AT THE SAME ANATOMICAL REGIONS
THERE ARE MORE DECREASE IN POSITIVE CORRELATION THAN INCREASE ON ATTENTIONAL LOAD CONTRAST.
WE CAN PLOT A 3D RENDERING OF FUNCTIONAL PARCELLATION WITH SHADES OF SIMILAR COLORS BASED ON SEEDS DIFFERENCE.
1. IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE THAT SEEDS LOCATED ON FRONTAL LOBAL HAVE SIGNIFICANT CORRELATIONS WITH VOXELS IN ANOTHER LOBES AND WE SEE RESULTS ON THESE DISTANT REGIONS, LIKE ANGULAR GYRUS.
1. V7 FUNCTIONAL SEED CORRELATION VOXELS THAT SHOW SIGNIFICANT CHANGE APPEAR ON PRECUNEUS.
1. V7 FUNCTIONAL SEED CORRELATION VOXELS THAT SHOW SIGNIFICANT CHANGE APPEAR ON PRECUNEUS.