Journal
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS
Volume 167, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2021.107361
Keywords
Attenuation; Cognitive control; Groupwise difference; Local polynomial smoothing; Schizophrenia; Saccades
Funding
- National Science Foundation [NSF IIS-1607919]
- Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education [NRF-2021R1A2C1092925]
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This study analyzed brain activation changes across different sessions and groups in a cognitive control task using a semi-parametric approach. The results show that utilizing shape invariance model can effectively quantify and test differences, providing a new pathway for studying the neural mechanisms of cognitive control tasks.
In the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, a common type of analysis is to compare differences across scanning sessions. A challenge to direct comparisons of this type is the low signal-to-noise ratio in fMRI data. By using the property that brain signals from a task-related experiment may exhibit a similar pattern in regions of interest across participants, a semiparametric approach under shape invariance to quantify and test the differences in sessions and groups is developed. The common function is estimated with local polynomial regression and the shape invariance model parameters are estimated using evolutionary optimization methods. The efficacy of the semi-parametric approach is demonstrated on a study of brain activation changes across two sessions associated with practice-related cognitive control. The objective of the study is to evaluate neural circuitry supporting a cognitive control task, and associated practice-related changes via acquisition of blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal collected using fMRI. By using the proposed approach, BOLD signals in multiple regions of interest for control participants and participants with schizophrenia are compared as they perform a cognitive control task (known as the antisaccade task) at two sessions, and the effects of task practice in these groups are quantified. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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