Effective connectivity of facial expression network by using Granger causality analysis

Hui Zhang; Xiaoting Li

doi:10.1117/12.2030912

27 October 2013 Effective connectivity of facial expression network by using Granger causality analysis

Hui Zhang, Xiaoting Li

Proceedings Volume 8920, MIPPR 2013: Parallel Processing of Images and Optimization and Medical Imaging Processing; 89200K (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030912
Event: Eighth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2013, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is an advanced non-invasive data acquisition technique to investigate the neural activity in human brain. In addition to localize the functional brain regions that is activated by specific cognitive task, fMRI can also be utilized to measure the task-related functional interactions among the active regions of interest (ROI) in the brain. Among the variety of analysis tools proposed for modeling the connectivity of brain regions, Granger causality analysis (GCA) measure the directions of information interactions by looking for the lagged effect among the brain regions. In this study, we use fMRI and Granger Causality analysis to investigate the effective connectivity of brain network induced by viewing several kinds of expressional faces. We focus on four kinds of facial expression stimuli: fearful, angry, happy and neutral faces. Five face selective regions of interest are localized and the effective connectivity within these regions is measured for the expressional faces. Our result based on 8 subjects showed that there is significant effective connectivity from STS to amygdala, from amygdala to OFA, aFFA and pFFA, from STS to aFFA and from pFFA to aFFA. This result suggested that there is an information flow from the STS to the amygdala when perusing expressional faces. This emotional expressional information flow that is conveyed by STS and amygdala, flow back to the face selective regions in occipital-temporal lobes, which constructed a emotional face processing network.

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Hui Zhang and Xiaoting Li "Effective connectivity of facial expression network by using Granger causality analysis", Proc. SPIE 8920, MIPPR 2013: Parallel Processing of Images and Optimization and Medical Imaging Processing, 89200K (27 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030912

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