Journal
BRAIN TOPOGRAPHY
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 569-582Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-016-0526-y
Keywords
Dynamic causal modelling; Intersubject variability; Connectivity; Microelectrodes; Laminar responses; Compartmental models; Hierarchical Bayesian models
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Funding
- Wellcome Trust [088130/Z/09/Z]
- MIT Picower Innovation Fund
- NIMH [R37MH087027]
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Neural rhythms or oscillations are ubiquitous in neuroimaging data. These spectral responses have been linked to several cognitive processes; including working memory, attention, perceptual binding and neuronal coordination. In this paper, we show how Bayesian methods can be used to finesse the ill-posed problem of reconstructingand explainingoscillatory responses. We offer an overview of recent developments in this field, focusing on (i) the use of MEG data and Empirical Bayes to build hierarchical models for group analysesand the identification of important sources of inter-subject variability and (ii) the construction of novel dynamic causal models of intralaminar recordings to explain layer-specific activity. We hope to show that electrophysiological measurements contain much more spatial information than is often thought: on the one hand, the dynamic causal modelling of non-invasive (low spatial resolution) electrophysiology can afford sub-millimetre (hyper-acute) resolution that is limited only by the (spatial) complexity of the underlying (dynamic causal) forward model. On the other hand, invasive microelectrode recordings (that penetrate different cortical layers) can reveal laminar-specific responses and elucidate hierarchical message passing and information processing within and between cortical regions at a macroscopic scale. In short, the careful and biophysically grounded modelling of sparse data enables one to characterise the neuronal architectures generating oscillations in a remarkable detail.
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