The purpose of this paper is to study spatiotemporal patterns of neuronal activity in emotional processing by analysis of ERP data. 108 pictures (categorized as positive, negative and neutral) were presented to 24 healthy, right-handed subjects while 128-channel EEG data were recorded. An analysis of two steps was applied to the ERP data. First, principal component analysis was performed to obtain significant ERP components. Then LORETA was applied to each component to localize their brain sources. The first six principal components were extracted, each of which showed different spatiotemporal patterns of neuronal activity. The results agree with other emotional study by fMRI or PET. The combination of PCA and LORETA can be used to analyze spatiotemporal patterns of ERP data in emotional processing.
The aim of this paper is to analyze spatiotemporal patterns of Event-related potential (ERP) in emotional processing by using fuzzy k-means clustering method to segment ERP data into microstates.108 pictures (categorized as positive, negative and neutral) were presented to 24 healthy, right-handed subjects while 128-channel EEG data were recorded. For each subject, 3 artifact-free ERPs were computed under each condition. A modified fuzzy k-mean clustering method based on shape similarity is applied to the grand mean ERPs and the statistical analysis is performed to define the significance of each segmentation map. In the results, positive and negative conditions showed different spatiotemporal patterns of ERP. The results were in accord with other emotional study by fMRI or PET.
We propose a new method for the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) which is called functional feature subspace mapping (FFSM). We mainly focused on the experimental design with periodic stimuli which can be described by a number of Fourier coefficients in the spectral domain. Then the subspace is obtained through the dimension reduction technique. Finally, the presence of activated time series is identified by the clustering method. Experiments with simulated data and the real human experiments are conducted to demonstrate that the algorithm we proposed is feasible. Although we focus on analyzing periodic fMRI data, the approach could be extended to analyze non-periodic fMRI data (event-related fMRI) by replacing the spectral analysis with a wavelet analysis.
The comprehensive understanding of human emotion processing needs consideration both in the spatial distribution and the temporal sequencing of neural activity. The aim of our work is to identify brain regions involved in emotional recognition as well as to follow the time sequence in the millisecond-range resolution. The effect of activation upon visual stimuli in different gender by International Affective Picture System (IAPS) has been examined. Hemodynamic and electrophysiological responses were measured in the same subjects. Both fMRI and ERP study were employed in an event-related study. fMRI have been obtained with 3.0 T Siemens Magnetom whole-body MRI scanner. 128-channel ERP data were recorded using an EGI system. ERP is sensitive to millisecond changes in mental activity, but the source localization and timing is limited by the ill-posed 'inversed' problem. We try to investigate the ERP source reconstruction problem in this study using fMRI constraint. We chose ICA as a pre-processing step of ERP source reconstruction to exclude the artifacts and provide a prior estimate of the number of dipoles. The results indicate that male and female show differences in neural mechanism
during emotion visual stimuli.
KEYWORDS: Functional magnetic resonance imaging, Data modeling, Data analysis, Independent component analysis, Brain activation, Detection and tracking algorithms, Algorithms, Medical imaging, Brain, Principal component analysis
This paper introduces a framework for the application of constrained non-negative matrix factorization (cNMF) to estimate the statistically distinct neural responses in a sequence of functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI). While an improved objective function has been defined to make the representation suitable for task-related brain activation detection, in this paper we explore various methods for better detection and efficient computation, placing particular emphasis on the initialization of the constrained NMF algorithm. The K-means algorithm performs this structured initialization and the information theoretic criterion of minimum description length (MDL) is used to estimate the number of clusters. We illustrate the method by a set of functional neuroimages from a motor activation study.
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