Affiliation:
1. South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics South China Normal University Guangzhou China
2. Key Lab for Behavioral Economic Science & Technology South China Normal University Guangzhou China
Abstract
AbstractNormalized mutual information (NMI) can be used to detect statistical correlations between time series. We showed possibility of using NMI to quantify synchronicity of information transmission in different brain regions, thus to characterize functional connections, and ultimately analyze differences in physiological states of brain. Resting‐state brain signals were recorded from bilateral temporal lobes by functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in 19 young healthy (YH) adults, 25 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and 22 children with typical development (TD). Using NMI of the fNIRS signals, common information volume was assessed for each of three groups. Results showed that mutual information of children with ASD was significantly smaller than that of TD children, while mutual information of YH adults was slightly larger than that of TD children. This study may suggest that NMI could be a measure for assessing brain activity with different development states.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Materials Science,General Chemistry