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NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 202, Issue -, Pages 276-282Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.11.048
Keywords
cognitive function; EEG; functional connectivity; phase lag index; graph analysis
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- Project for the National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973) [2011CB707702, 2012CB518501]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30930112, 30970774, 60901064, 30873462, 81000640, 81000641, 81071217, 81101036, 81101108, 31150110171]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KGCX2-YW-129]
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Both anatomical and functional brain network studies have drawn great attention recently. Previous studies have suggested the significant impacts of brain network topology on cognitive function. However, the relationship between non-task related resting-state functional brain network topology and overall efficiency of sensorimotor processing has not been well identified. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between non-task related resting-state functional brain network topology and reaction time (RT) in a Go/Nogo task using an electroencephalogram (EEG). After estimating the functional connectivity between each pair of electrodes, graph analysis was applied to characterize the network topology. Two fundamental measures, clustering coefficient (functional segregation) and characteristic path length (functional integration), as well as small-world-ness (the ratio between the clustering coefficient and characteristic path length) were calculated in five frequency bands. Then, the correlations between the network measures and RT were evaluated in each band separately. The present results showed that increased overall functional connectivity in alpha and gamma frequency bands was correlated with a longer RT. Furthermore, shorter RT was correlated with a shorter characteristic path length in the gamma band. This result suggested that human RTs were likely to be related to the efficiency of the brain integrating information across distributed brain regions. The results also showed that a longer RT was related to an increased gamma clustering coefficient and decreased small-world-ness. These results provided further evidence of the association between the resting-state functional brain network and cognitive function. (C) 2011 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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