Analysis of a phase synchronized functional network based on the rhythm of brain activities

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摘要 Rhythmofbrainactivitiesrepresentsoscillationsofpostsynapticpotentialsinneocortex,thereforeitcanserveasanindicatorofthebrainactivitystate.Inordertochecktheconnectivityofbrainrhythm,thispaperdevelopsanewmethodofconstructingfunctionalnetworkbasedonphasesynchronization.Electroencephalogram(EEG)datawerecollectedwhilesubjectslookingatagreencrossintwostates,performinganattentiontaskandrelaxingwitheyes-open.TheEEGfromthesetwostateswasfilteredbythreeband-passfilterstoobtainsignalsoftheta(4-7Hz),alpha(8-13Hz)andbeta(14-30Hz)bands.Meanresultantlengthwasusedtoestimatestrengthofphasesynchronizationinthreebandstoconstructnetworksofbothstates,andmeandegreeKandclustercoefficientCofnetworkswerecalculatedasafunctionofthreshold.Theresultshowshigherclustercoefficientintheattentionstatethanintheeyes-openstateinallthreebands,suggestingthatclustercoefficientreflectsbrainstate.Inaddition,anobviousfronto-parietalnetworkisfoundintheattentionstate,whichisawell-knownattentionnetwork.Theseresultsindicatethatattentionmodulatesthefronto-parietalconnectivityindifferentmodesascomparedwiththeeyes-openstate.Takentogetherthismethodisanobjectiveandimportanttooltostudythepropertiesofneuralnetworksofbrainrhythm.
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出处 《中国物理B:英文版》 2011年3期
出版日期 2011年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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