title: Brain-computer interfaces increase whole-brain signal to noise.
abstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can convert mental states into signals to drive real-world devices, but it is not known if a given covert task is the same when performed with and without BCI-based control. Using a BCI likely involves additional cognitive processes, such as multitasking, attention, and conflict monitoring. In addition, it is challenging to measure the quality of covert task performance. We used whole-brain classifier-based real-time functional MRI to address these issues, because the method provides both classifier-based maps to examine the neural requirements of BCI and classification accuracy to quantify the quality of task performance. Subjects performed a covert counting task at fast and slow rates to control a visual interface. Compared with the same task when viewing but not controlling the interface, we observed that being in control of a BCI improved task classification of fast and slow counting states. Additional BCI control increased subjects' whole-brain signal-to-noise ratio compared with the absence of control. The neural pattern for control consisted of a positive network comprised of dorsal parietal and frontal regions and the anterior insula of the right hemisphere as well as an expansive negative network of regions. These findings suggest that real-time functional MRI can serve as a platform for exploring information processing and frontoparietal and insula network-based regulation of whole-brain task signal-to-noise ratio.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
authors.forename: T Dorina
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Papageorgiou
authors.forename: Jonathan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lisinski
authors.forename: Monica A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: McHenry
authors.forename: Jason P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Stephen M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: LaConte
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D062207:Brain-Computer Interfaces / Q000523:psychology*; D003199:Computer Systems; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: multi-voxel pattern analysis; neurofeedback; speech motor imagery; support vector machine
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