title: Brisk heart rate and EEG changes during execution and withholding of cue-paced foot motor imagery.
abstract: Cue-paced motor imagery (MI) is a frequently used mental strategy to realize a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). Recently it has been reported that two MI tasks can be separated with a high accuracy within the first second after cue presentation onset. To investigate this phenomenon in detail we studied the dynamics of motor cortex beta oscillations in EEG and the changes in heart rate (HR) during visual cue-paced foot MI using a go (execution of imagery) vs. nogo (withholding of imagery) paradigm in 16 healthy subjects. Both execution and withholding of MI resulted in a brisk centrally localized beta event-related desynchronization (ERD) with a maximum at ~400 ms and a concomitant HR deceleration. We found that response patterns within the first second after stimulation differed between conditions. The ERD was significantly larger in go as compared to nogo. In contrast the HR deceleration was somewhat smaller and followed by an acceleration in go as compared to nogo. These findings suggest that the early beta ERD reflects visually induced preparatory activity in motor cortex networks. Both the early beta ERD and the HR deceleration are the result of automatic operating processes that are likely part of the orienting reflex (OR). Of interest, however, is that the preparatory cortical activity is strengthened and the HR modulated already within the first second after stimulation during the execution of MI. The subtraction of the HR time course of the nogo from the go condition revealed a slight HR acceleration in the first seconds most likely due to the increased mental effort associated with the imagery process.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computer Sciences, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaced, Institute for Knowledge Discovery, Graz University of Technology Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Gert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pfurtscheller
authors.forename: Teodoro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Solis-Escalante
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: Daniela S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Klobassa
authors.forename: Christa
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Neuper
authors.forename: Gernot R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Müller-Putz
keywords: HR response; beta ERD; motor imagery; orienting reflex
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