Modelling functional brain architecture. (360G-Wellcome-056750_Z_99_C)
The aim of the proposed work is to create models that enable useful and informed inferences about brain function based upon whole-brain electromagnetic and hemodynamic responses. These models are important because they define the nature of the inferences made. Neuroimaging with electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has an established role in nearly every aspect of cognitive, systems and clinical neuroscience. The data analysis procedures are now relatively sophisticated and ensure valid inferences. However, the statistical models employed are rather simple-minded and have little connection to neurophysiological procecesses, or the principles that might underlie brain function. Conventional models of fMRI are a little more sophisticated than most and rest on linear convolution modes of how changes in neuronal activity are expressed hemodynamically. However, even infMRI, interactions among different neuronal populations or cortical areas are precluded. This is important because the conceptual and biological validity of any forward model, of observed brain responses, places fundamental constraints on the validity and usefulness of inferences about that model. The programme of work described below is an attempt to finesse current models and ground them inneurophysiology and conceptual frameworks derived from machine learning. The hope is that inferences about the parameters of these models are empowered because the parameters have an explicit neurophysiological or mechanistic meaning. If successful, this work will facilitate two key ways of integrating theoretical ideas about large-scale brain function and experimental observations. The first rests on using brain responses to estimate physiologically meaningful parameters of neuronal architectures. The second approach uses data to disambiguate among competing models that embody key theoretical distinctions, formulated in terms of neurophysiology or machine learning; it is a relatively simple matter to identify the most likely model, given the data, using Bayesian model selection.
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Grant Details
Amount Awarded | 94552 |
Applicant Surname | Friston |
Approval Committee | Scientific Committee |
Award Date | 2008-09-16T00:00:00+00:00 |
Financial Year | 2007/08 |
Grant Programme: Title | Principal Research Fellowship (New) |
Internal ID | 056750/Z/99/C |
Lead Applicant | Prof Karl Friston |
Partnership Value | 94552 |
Planned Dates: End Date | 2009-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 |
Planned Dates: Start Date | 2008-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
Recipient Org: Country | United Kingdom |
Region | Greater London |
Sponsor(s) | Prof Raymond Dolan |