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Spatio-Spectral Coherence Analysis of ERP signals for Attentional Visual Stimulus

시각 자극의 집중에 따른 뇌유발전위의 공간-주파수 상관 분석

  • Lee, ByuckJin (Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Yoo, SunKook (Department of Medical Engineering, Yonsei University, College of Medicine)
  • 이벽진 (연세대학교 일반대학원 생체공학협동과정) ;
  • 유선국 (연세대학교 의과대학 의학공학교실)
  • Received : 2013.07.19
  • Published : 2013.10.25
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Abstract

In this paper, the brain function in relation with human's visual attention was investigated by means of coherence and bicoherence methods. Throughout experimentation with attentional visual stimulus ERP (Event Related Potential) data and synthesized simulated data with different combinations of parameters, it is demonstrated that bicoherence and coherence can be useful to reveal the phase synchronies between different frequency bands at fixed scalp location, and between different scalp locations at fixed frequency band, respectively. Both methods are also affected by time interval from the onset, and the level of white noise added. The phase coupled relationships among ${\Theta}$, ${\delta}$, and ${\alpha}$ bands, and between frontal and central lobes were observed for attentional tasks, while those were little observable for inattentional tasks, which can show brain's functional spatio-spectral differences associated with human's attention.

본 논문에서는 인간의 시각집중에 따른 뇌기능을 코히어런스와 바이코히어런스 방법을 이용하여 해석하였다. 집중에 관련된 시각자극 실험을 통하여 유발된 뇌유발전위 데이터와 합성한 모의실험 데이터를 통하여, 바이코히어런스는 고정된 두피에서 서로 다른 주파수 대역간의 위상 동조를 보이는데, 코히어런스는 고정된 주파수 대역에서 서로 다른 두피 위치간의 위상동조를 나타내는데 유효하다는 것을 확인 하였다. 두 방법 모두 자극시점과 첨가된 백색잡음의 크기에 영향을 받았다. 집중관련 자극수행에 대하여 바이코히어런스는 ${\Theta}$, ${\delta}$, ${\alpha}$ 대역간의 위상동조를, 코히어런스는 뇌의 전두엽과 두정엽 간의 위상동조를 보였으며, 비집중 자극 수행에 대해서는 위상동조 현상이 두드러지지 않게 관측됨으로써, 인간의 집중과 관련하여 뇌의 기능적인 공간-주파수 간의 차이를 확인할 수 있었다.

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