Low-Dimensional Dynamics Encoding in Human Brain Data Público

Abstract

The brain is a complex, multiscale structure where different levels work together to produce behaviors and cognition. People have placed much emphasis on the functioning of individual parts of the brain, but in order to achieve one of the ultimate goals of neuroscience, we need to consider the brain dynamics as a whole, and focus not only on each part of the brain but the functional connectivity within the brain dynamics. Here, we find lower dimensional states in ECoG data, looking for long-time scale patterns.

One of the biggest challenges we face is the complexity of the data; the brain data is high dimensional, and it contains structures across different length scales and different time scales. To analyze the data, we performed different dimensionality reduction methods to visualize brain dynamics in a lower dimensional state. Then, by looking at the embedding space from t-SNE, we found clustering features of embedding space are contiguous and also discrete. By looking at the amplitudes of all neural channels, we could group clusters on the embedding space together into different brain regions, with right hippocampus dentate gyrus (DG) being most dominant across the map. Then, we compare the transitions of the dataset to that of Markovian model generated from the data; we observe the dataset contains a much longer time scale, far beyond what Markov model can predict, indicating the presence of a complex dynamical structure that bridges scales.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Materials and Methods 4

    Data collection and pre-processing 4

    Wavelet transforms 4

    Spatial Embedding 6

    Training Set Generation and Re-embedding 7

    Markovian Models Generation 9

    Transition Matrices and Non-Markovian Time Scale 9

Results 9

    Embedding space dynamics 9

    Transition matrices and non-Markovian time scales 14

    Comparison with the Markovian model 16

Discussion 20

Table of Figures 21

References 22

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School	Emory College
Department	Biology
Degree	B.S.
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Biology, Neuroscience Biology, Biostatistics
Palavra-chave	ECoG brain decoding dimensionality reduction t-SNE
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Berman, Gordon, Emory University
Committee Members	Prinz, Astrid, Emory University Keilholz, Shella, Emory University

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