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Spatiotemporal scales of dynamical functional networks - using whole-brain modelling to identify the optimal resolution

Kobeleva, X.; Lopez-Gonzalez, A.; Kringelbach, M.; Deco, G.

2020-09-13 neuroscience
10.1101/2020.09.12.277699 bioRxiv
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The brain rapidly processes and adapts to new information by dynamically switching between activity in whole-brain functional networks. In this whole-brain modelling study we investigate the relevance of spatiotemporal scale in whole-brain functional networks. This is achieved through estimating brain parcellations at different spatial scales (100-900 regions) and time series at different temporal scales (from milliseconds to seconds) generated by a whole-brain model fitted to fMRI data. We quantify a fingerprint of healthy dynamics quantifying the richness of the dynamical repertoire at each spatiotemporal scale by computing the entropy of switching activity between whole-brain functional networks. The results show that the optimal relevant spatial scale is around 300 regions and a temporal scale of around 150 milliseconds. Overall, this study provides much needed evidence for the relevant spatiotemporal scales needed to make sense of neuroimaging data.

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