腦磁活動與自發運動反應時間差異之關係

Neuromagnetic correlates of behavioral variability in voluntary visuomotor tasks

楊馥華(Fu-Hua Yang)

指導教授 ： 林發暄

國立臺灣大學/工學院/醫學工程學研究所/碩士(2011年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2011.01678

摘要

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關鍵字

反應時間 ； 行為變異度 ； α振盪 ； 視覺 ； 運動 ； 腦磁波

並列摘要

Intra-individual variability in behaviors can be an important indicator of central nervous system integrity. This study aims at understanding the origins of the behavioral reaction time (RT) variability across trials using magnetoencephalography (MEG) in a two-choice reaction time visuomotor task. We classify trials into the fast-response (FR) and the slow-response (SR) groups according to the RTs and we study the oscillatory activity and evoked responses. We found that the pre-stimulus alpha band (8-14 Hz) oscillatory power (0.4 s before the visual stimulus onset) around right posterior sensors was significantly higher in the SR group than in the FR group (p<0.001). The visual and motor evoked responses have significantly smaller amplitude in the SR group than in the FR group. With respect to the onset of the visual stimulus, the peak timing difference between FR and SR groups was only 0~8 ms in the visual cortex and 85 ms in the motor cortex. These results suggest that the posterior alpha power may modulate the brain activity in visual and motor cortices to cause inter-trial RT variability. Such a modulation can be observed after 150 ms from the visual stimulus onset by MEG.

並列關鍵字

reaction time ； behavioral variability ； alpha power ； visuomotor task ； magnetoencephalography

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