Reconstruction of Temporal Movement from Single-trial Non-invasive Brain Activity: A Hierarchical Bayesian Method

  • Authors:
  • Akihiro Toda;Hiroshi Imamizu;Masa-Aki Sato;Yasuhiro Wada;Mitsuo Kawato

  • Affiliations:
  • Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata, Japan 940-2188;ATR Computational Neuroscience Lab, Kyoto, Japan 619-0288;ATR Computational Neuroscience Lab, Kyoto, Japan 619-0288;Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata, Japan 940-2188;ATR Computational Neuroscience Lab, Kyoto, Japan 619-0288

  • Venue:
  • Neural Information Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We tried to reconstruct temporal movement information (position, velocity and acceleration) from single-trial brain activity measured using non-invasive methods. While human subjects performed wrist movement in eight directions, brain activity was measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalogram (MEG). To reconstruct the movement information, we used cortical currents estimated by hierarchical Bayesian method for each subject. Correlation coefficients between reconstructed position and actual position ranged from 0.45 to 0.6. Although accuracy of our method is inferior to those in a previous study, our method is based on cortical current that is tightly coupled with anatomical regions, and thus would be a useful tool in neuroscience if the accuracy could be improved.