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A Resonance Model for Spontaneous Cortical Activity

Neurons and Cognition 2022-10-10 v3

Abstract

How human brain function emerges from structure has intrigued researchers for decades and numerous models have been put forward, yet none of them yields a close structure-function relation. Here we present a resonance model based on neuronal spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) principle to describe the spontaneous cortical activity by incorporating the dynamic interactions between neuronal populations into a wave equation, which is able to accurately predict the resting brain functional connectivity (FC), including the resting-state networks. Besides, the proposed model provides strong theoretical and experimental evidences that the spontaneous dynamic coupling between brain regions fluctuates with a low frequency. Crucially, it is able to account for how the negative functional correlations emerge during resonance. We test the model with a large cohort of subjects (1038) from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) S1200 release in both time and frequency domain, which exhibits superior performance to existing eigen-decomposition models.

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@article{arxiv.2208.14668,
  title  = {A Resonance Model for Spontaneous Cortical Activity},
  author = {Yanjiang Wang and Jichao Ma and Jiebin Luo and Xue Chen and Yue Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.14668},
  year   = {2022}
}
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