Motor imagery of voluntary coughing: an fMRI study using a support vector machine
Szameitat, A.J. and Raabe, M. and Muller, Hermann J. and Greenlee, M. and Mourão-Miranda, J. (2010) Motor imagery of voluntary coughing: an fMRI study using a support vector machine. NeuroReport 21 (15), pp. 980-984. ISSN 0959-4965.
Abstract
Investigating respiratory acts using motor imagery has the advantage that motion artifacts are much less likely to occur. To test whether motor imagery of voluntary coughing shows similar spatiotemporal activity patterns as compared to overt coughing, 12 participants underwent functional MRI scanning performing both tasks. We analyzed the data using a pattern classifier, that is, a support vector machine. Results showed that during imagined coughing, a number of brain areas reported previously to be involved in respiration showed more similarity in their spatiotemporal activity patterns with overt coughing than with a resting baseline. We conclude that motor imagery can be a suitable paradigm to investigate respiration, and that support vector machine analysis is potentially more sensitive and specific than a standard univariate analysis.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2015 11:39 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:19 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13355 |
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