Keywords :
Cognitive flexibility; EEG-MRI; multimodal covariance network; response prediction; trail-making test; Humans; Electroencephalography; Neural Pathways/diagnostic imaging; Cognition; Brain/diagnostic imaging; Brain Mapping; Executive Function; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Covariance networks; Electroencephalograph-magnetic resonance imaging; Multi-modal; Performance; Resting state; Structural-functional; Trail making tests; Brain; Neural Pathways; Computer Networks and Communications
Abstract :
[en] Cognitive flexibility refers to the capacity to shift between patterns of mental function and relies on functional activity supported by anatomical structures. However, how the brain's structural-functional covarying is preconfigured in the resting state to facilitate cognitive flexibility under tasks remains unrevealed. Herein, we investigated the potential relationship between individual cognitive flexibility performance during the trail-making test (TMT) and structural-functional covariation of the large-scale multimodal covariance network (MCN) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalograph (EEG) datasets of 182 healthy participants. Results show that cognitive flexibility correlated significantly with the intra-subnetwork covariation of the visual network (VN) and somatomotor network (SMN) of MCN. Meanwhile, inter-subnetwork interactions across SMN and VN/default mode network/frontoparietal network (FPN), as well as across VN and ventral attention network (VAN)/dorsal attention network (DAN) were also found to be closely related to individual cognitive flexibility. After using resting-state MCN connectivity as representative features to train a multi-layer perceptron prediction model, we achieved a reliable prediction of individual cognitive flexibility performance. Collectively, this work offers new perspectives on the structural-functional coordination of cognitive flexibility and also provides neurobiological markers to predict individual cognitive flexibility.
Funding text :
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 62103085, 62076209, and U19A2082), the Key R&D projects of Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province (No. 2023YFS0324), and the STI 2030 - Major Projects (Nos. 2022ZD0208500 and 2022ZD0211400).
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