INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale : U746, Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique , IRISA-D5 - SIGNAUX ET IMAGES NUMÉRIQUES, ROBOTIQUE
Abstract : EEG-fMRI-neurofeedback(NF) has been introduced for the first time by Zotev et al [1]. The authors hypothesized that bimodal EEG-fMRI-NF could be more efficient than unimodal EEG-NF or fMRI-NF performed alone. A recent study identified the fMRI signature of motor imagery during EEG-NF [3]. However to our knowledge EEG-fMRI-NF, EEG-NF and fMRI-NF have never been compared before. In the present work, we propose an EEG-fMRI-NF protocol of a motor imagery (MI) task and compare the cross-modal effects of EEG-NF, fMRI-NF and EEG-fMRI-NF. We hypothesized that:
• EEG activations : EEG-NF ≥ EEG-fMRI-NF > fMRI-NF
• fMRI activations : fMRI-NF ≥ EEG-fMRI-NF > EEG-NF
As compared to [1] in which EEG and fMRI were represented with two separate gauges, our feedback metaphor integrates both EEG and fMRI signal in a single bi-dimensional feedback (a ball moving in 2D) in order for the subject to more easily perceive the NF training as one regulation task instead of two.
Lorraine Perronnet, Anatole Lécuyer, Marsel Mano, Elise Bannier, Fabien Lotte, et al.. EEG-fMRI neurofeedback of a motor imagery task. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Jun 2016, Genève, Switzerland. ⟨hal-01426182⟩
