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J Neural Transm (Vienna) ; 111(7): 951-69, 2004 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15206009

ABSTRACT

Biological research about dyslexia has been conducted using various neuroimaging methods like functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) or Electroencephalography (EEG). Since language functions are characterized by both distributed network activities and speed of processing within milliseconds, high temporal as well as high spatial resolution of activation profiles are of interest: "where" can dyslexia specific activations be detected and "when" do language processes start to diverge between dyslexics and controls? Due to the network character of language processing, fMRI-constrained distributed source models based on EEG-data were computed for multimodal data integration. First single-case results show that this method could be a promising approach for the understanding of a repeatedly described experimental finding for dyslexia like that of an overactivation in inferior frontal language areas. Multimodal data analysis for the subjects presented here could probably demonstrate that inferior frontal overactivations are the consequence of a phonological deficit and could represent ongoing articulation processes used to solve phonologically challenging tasks.


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Dyslexia/physiopathology , Electroencephalography , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Photic Stimulation/methods , Adolescent , Analysis of Variance , Brain/physiopathology , Child , Dyslexia/diagnosis , Electroencephalography/methods , Electroencephalography/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/statistics & numerical data , Multivariate Analysis , Normal Distribution
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Neuroimage ; 14(1 Pt 1): 206-18, 2001 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11525330

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we examined three vector quantization (VQ) methods used for the unsupervised classification (clustering) of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Classification means that each brain volume element (voxel), according to a given scanning raster, was assigned to one group of voxels based on similarity of the fMRI signal patterns. It was investigated how the VQ methods can isolate a cluster that describes the region involved in a particular brain function. As an example, word processing was stimulated by a word comparison task. VQ analysis methodology was verified using simulated fMRI response patterns. It was demonstrated in detail that VQ based on global rather than local optimization of the objective function yielded a higher performance. Performance was measured in statistically relevant series of VQ attempts using several indices for goodness, reliability and efficiency of VQ solutions. Furthermore, it was shown that a poor local optimization caused either an underestimation or an overestimation of the stimulus-induced brain activation. However, this was not observed if the cluster analysis was based upon a global optimization strategy.


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Cerebral Cortex/physiology , Cluster Analysis , Discrimination Learning/physiology , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/statistics & numerical data , Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology , Adult , Brain Mapping , Female , Humans , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted , Imaging, Three-Dimensional , Male , Psychomotor Performance , Reference Values , Stochastic Processes
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