Tracking Neuronal Connectivity from Electric Brain Signals to Predict Performance

Neuroscientist. 2019 Feb;25(1):86-93. doi: 10.1177/1073858418776891. Epub 2018 May 20.

Abstract

The human brain is a complex container of interconnected networks. Network neuroscience is a recent venture aiming to explore the connection matrix built from the human brain or human "Connectome." Network-based algorithms provide parameters that define global organization of the brain; when they are applied to electroencephalographic (EEG) signals network, configuration and excitability can be monitored in millisecond time frames, providing remarkable information on their instantaneous efficacy also for a given task's performance via online evaluation of the underlying instantaneous networks before, during, and after the task. Here we provide an updated summary on the connectome analysis for the prediction of performance via the study of task-related dynamics of brain network organization from EEG signals.

Keywords: EEG; functional brain connectivity; graph theory; performance.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Brain / physiology*
  • Brain Mapping / methods*
  • Brain Waves*
  • Connectome / methods*
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Models, Neurological
  • Neural Pathways / physiology
  • Psychomotor Performance*