Journal
NEUROIMAGE
Volume 228, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117571
Keywords
Brain oscillations; Single-trial; Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS); Stimulation artifact; Electroencephalography (EEG)
Funding
- European Research Council (ERC) [759370]
- Baden-Wurttemberg Stiftung [NEU007/1]
- Einstein Stiftung Berlin
- Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC) [759370] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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A real-time compatible artifact rejection algorithm (SASS) was introduced to overcome limitations in adapting stimulation parameters to ongoing brain oscillations. By using SASS, stimulation-specific signal components could be reliably removed while leaving physiological signal components unaffected. Results indicate that SASS can be used to establish adaptive AM-tACS, providing a potentially powerful tool to target various brain functions and investigate how AM-tACS interacts with electric brain oscillations.
Brain oscillations, e.g. measured by electro- or magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG), are causally linked to brain functions that are fundamental for perception, cognition and learning. Recent advances in neurotechnology pro vide means to non-invasively target these oscillations using frequency-tuned amplitude-modulated transcranial alternating current stimulation (AM-tACS). However, online adaptation of stimulation parameters to ongoing brain oscillations remains an unsolved problem due to stimulation artifacts that impede such adaptation, particularly at the target frequency. Here, we introduce a real-time compatible artifact rejection algorithm (Stimulation Artifact Source Separation, SASS) that overcomes this limitation. SASS is a spatial filter (linear projection) removing EEG signal components that are maximally different in the presence versus absence of stimulation. This enables the reliable removal of stimulation-specific signal components, while leaving physiological signal components unaffected. For validation of SASS, we evoked brain activity with known phase and amplitude using 10 Hz visual flickers across 7 healthy human volunteers. 64-channel EEG was recorded during and in absence of 10 Hz AM-tACS targeting the visual cortex. Phase differences between AM-tACS and the visual stimuli were randomized, so that steady-state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs) were phase-locked to the visual stimuli but not to the AM-tACS signal. For validation, distributions of single-trial amplitude and phase of EEG signals recorded during and in absence of AM-tACS were compared for each participant. When no artifact rejection method was applied, AM-tACS stimulation artifacts impeded assessment of single-trial SSVEP amplitude and phase. Using SASS, amplitude and phase of single trials recorded during and in absence of AM-tACS were comparable. These results indicate that SASS can be used to establish adaptive (closed-loop) AM-tACS, a potentially powerful tool to target various brain functions, and to investigate how AM-tACS interacts with electric brain oscillations.
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