Abstract
Objective: In tasks involving new visuospatial information, we rely on working memory, supported by a distributed brain network. We investigated the dynamic interplay between brain regions, including cortical and white matter structures, to understand how neural interactions change with different memory loads and trials, and their subsequent impact on working memory performance. Methods: Patients undertook a task of immediate spatial recall during intracranial EEG monitoring. We charted the dynamics of cortical high-gamma activity and associated functional connectivity modulations in white matter tracts. Results: Elevated memory loads were linked to enhanced functional connectivity via occipital longitudinal tracts, yet decreased through arcuate, uncinate, and superior-longitudinal fasciculi. As task familiarity grew, there was increased high-gamma activity in the posterior inferior-frontal gyrus (pIFG) and diminished functional connectivity across a network encompassing frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes. Early pIFG high-gamma activity was predictive of successful recall. Including this metric in a logistic regression model yielded an accuracy of 0.76. Conclusions: Optimizing visuospatial working memory through practice is tied to early pIFG activation and decreased dependence on irrelevant neural pathways. Significance: This study expands our knowledge of human adaptation for visuospatial working memory, showing the spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical network modulations through white matter tracts.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 9-27 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Clinical Neurophysiology |
| Volume | 162 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2024 |
Funding
We are grateful to Sandeep Sood, MD, Neena I. Marupudi, MD, and Jamie MacDougall, RN, BSN, CPN at Children's Hospital of Michigan, for the collaboration and assistance in performing the studies described above. We want to thank Lumos Labs for providing us with the software as a part of the Lumosity Human Cognition Project (https://www.lumosity.com/hcp). This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NS064033 to E.A.; MH107512 to N.O.; NS115918 to E.L.J.) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI JP23KJ2197 to R.U.; KAKENHI JP22KJ0323 to N.K.). We are grateful to Sandeep Sood, MD, Neena I. Marupudi, MD, and Jamie MacDougall, RN, BSN, CPN at Children's Hospital of Michigan, for the collaboration and assistance in performing the studies described above. We want to thank Lumos Labs for providing us with the software as a part of the Lumosity Human Cognition Project (https://www.lumosity.com/hcp). This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NS064033 to E.A.; MH107512 to N.O.; NS115918 to E.L.J.) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI JP23KJ2197 to R.U.).
Keywords
- Broadband high-frequency activity
- Functional brain mapping
- Intracranial EEG recording
- Pediatric epilepsy surgery
- Physiological high-frequency oscillations (HFOs)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sensory Systems
- Neurology
- Clinical Neurology
- Physiology (medical)