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Connectome spectral analysis to track EEG task dynamics on a subsecond scale

Glomb, Katharina
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Queralt, Joan Rue
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Pascucci, David  
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November 1, 2020
Neuroimage

We present an approach for tracking fast spatiotemporal cortical dynamics in which we combine white matter connectivity data with source-projected electroencephalographic (EEG) data. We employ the mathematical framework of graph signal processing in order to derive the Fourier modes of the brain structural connectivity graph, or "network harmonics". These network harmonics are naturally ordered by smoothness. Smoothness in this context can be understood as the amount of variation along the cortex, leading to a multi-scale representation of brain connectivity. We demonstrate that network harmonics provide a sparse representation of the EEG signal, where, at certain times, the smoothest 15 network harmonics capture 90% of the signal power. This suggests that network harmonics are functionally meaningful, which we demonstrate by using them as a basis for the functional EEG data recorded from a face detection task. There, only 13 network harmonics are sufficient to track the large-scale cortical activity during the processing of the stimuli with a 50 ms resolution, reproducing well-known activity in the fusiform face area as well as revealing co-activation patterns in somatosensory/motor and frontal cortices that an unconstrained ROI-by-ROI analysis fails to capture. The proposed approach is simple and fast, provides a means of integration of multimodal datasets, and is tied to a theoretical framework in mathematics and physics. Thus, network harmonics point towards promising research directions both theoretically - for example in exploring the relationship between structure and function in the brain - and practically - for example for network tracking in different tasks and groups of individuals, such as patients.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117137
Web of Science ID

WOS:000600795000009

Author(s)
Glomb, Katharina
Queralt, Joan Rue
Pascucci, David  
Defferrard, Michael  
Tourbier, Sebastien
Carboni, Margherita
Rubega, Maria
Vulliemoz, Serge
Plomp, Gijs  
Hagmann, Patric  
Date Issued

2020-11-01

Published in
Neuroimage
Volume

221

Start page

1

End page

15, 117137

Subjects

Neurosciences

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Neuroimaging

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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging

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Neurosciences & Neurology

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state functional connectivity

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human cerebral-cortex

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brain

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network

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meg

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communication

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architecture

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perception

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model

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fmri

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LPSY  
LTS2  
FunderGrant Number

FNS

170873

FNS

169198

FNS

192749

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January 9, 2021
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/174555
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