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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Resting-state brain activity is characterized by the presence of neuronal
avalanches showing absence of characteristic size. Such evidence has been interpreted
in the context of criticality and associated with the normal functioning of the
brain. A distinctive attribute of systems at criticality is the presence of long-range
correlations. Thus, to verify the hypothesis that the brain operates close to
a critical point and consequently assess deviations from criticality for diagnostic
purposes, it is of primary importance to robustly and reliably characterize correlations
in resting-state brain activity. Recent works focused on the analysis of narrow-band
electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) signal amplitude
envelope, showing evidence of long-range temporal correlations (LRTC) in neural
oscillations. However, brain activity is a broadband phenomenon, and a significant
piece of information useful to precisely discriminate between normal (critical)
and pathological behavior (non-critical), may be encoded in the broadband spatio-temporal
cortical dynamics. Here we propose to characterize the temporal correlations in
the broadband brain activity through the lens of neuronal avalanches. To this
end, we consider resting-state EEG and long-term MEG recordings, extract the corresponding
neuronal avalanche sequences, and study their temporal correlations. We demonstrate
that the broadband resting-state brain activity consistently exhibits long-range
power-law correlations in both EEG and MEG recordings, with similar values of
the scaling exponents. Importantly, although we observe that the avalanche size
distribution depends on scale parameters, scaling exponents characterizing long-range
correlations are quite robust. In particular, they are independent of the temporal
binning (scale of analysis), indicating that our analysis captures intrinsic characteristics
of the underlying dynamics. Because neuronal avalanches constitute a fundamental
feature of neural systems with universal characteristics, the proposed approach
may serve as a general, systems- and experiment-independent procedure to infer
the existence of underlying long-range correlations in extended neural systems,
and identify pathological behaviors in the complex spatio-temporal interplay of
cortical rhythms.
acknowledgement: LdA would like to acknowledge the financial support from MIUR-PRIN2017
WZFTZP and VALERE:VAnviteLli pEr la RicErca 2019. FL acknowledges support from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie
Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754411. HJH would like to thank the Agencies
CAPES and FUNCAP for financial support.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Fabrizio
full_name: Lombardi, Fabrizio
id: A057D288-3E88-11E9-986D-0CF4E5697425
last_name: Lombardi
orcid: 0000-0003-2623-5249
- first_name: Oren
full_name: Shriki, Oren
last_name: Shriki
- first_name: Hans J
full_name: Herrmann, Hans J
last_name: Herrmann
- first_name: Lucilla
full_name: de Arcangelis, Lucilla
last_name: de Arcangelis
citation:
ama: Lombardi F, Shriki O, Herrmann HJ, de Arcangelis L. Long-range temporal correlations
in the broadband resting state activity of the human brain revealed by neuronal
avalanches. Neurocomputing. 2021;461:657-666. doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2020.05.126
apa: Lombardi, F., Shriki, O., Herrmann, H. J., & de Arcangelis, L. (2021).
Long-range temporal correlations in the broadband resting state activity of the
human brain revealed by neuronal avalanches. Neurocomputing. Elsevier.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2020.05.126
chicago: Lombardi, Fabrizio, Oren Shriki, Hans J Herrmann, and Lucilla de Arcangelis.
“Long-Range Temporal Correlations in the Broadband Resting State Activity of the
Human Brain Revealed by Neuronal Avalanches.” Neurocomputing. Elsevier,
2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2020.05.126.
ieee: F. Lombardi, O. Shriki, H. J. Herrmann, and L. de Arcangelis, “Long-range
temporal correlations in the broadband resting state activity of the human brain
revealed by neuronal avalanches,” Neurocomputing, vol. 461. Elsevier, pp.
657–666, 2021.
ista: Lombardi F, Shriki O, Herrmann HJ, de Arcangelis L. 2021. Long-range temporal
correlations in the broadband resting state activity of the human brain revealed
by neuronal avalanches. Neurocomputing. 461, 657–666.
mla: Lombardi, Fabrizio, et al. “Long-Range Temporal Correlations in the Broadband
Resting State Activity of the Human Brain Revealed by Neuronal Avalanches.” Neurocomputing,
vol. 461, Elsevier, 2021, pp. 657–66, doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2020.05.126.
short: F. Lombardi, O. Shriki, H.J. Herrmann, L. de Arcangelis, Neurocomputing 461
(2021) 657–666.
date_created: 2020-02-06T16:09:14Z
date_published: 2021-05-13T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-08-04T10:46:29Z
day: '13'
department:
- _id: GaTk
doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2020.05.126
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
isi:
- '000704086300015'
intvolume: ' 461'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.03.930966
month: '05'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 657-666
project:
- _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
call_identifier: H2020
grant_number: '754411'
name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships
publication: Neurocomputing
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1872-8286
issn:
- 0925-2312
publication_status: published
publisher: Elsevier
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Long-range temporal correlations in the broadband resting state activity of
the human brain revealed by neuronal avalanches
type: journal_article
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volume: 461
year: '2021'
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