TY - CHAP Y1 - 2006/// KW - Magnetic resonance imaging KW - Enterprise resource planning KW - Independent component analysis KW - Magnetic resonance KW - Design for experiments KW - Protocols KW - Image resolution KW - Tomography KW - Current density KW - Electromagnetic analysis AV - none TI - Combination of event-related potentials and functional magnetic resonance imaging during single-letter reading UR - http://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259272 PB - IEEE A1 - Casarotto, Silvia A1 - Bianchi, Anna M. A1 - Cerutti, Sergio A1 - Vanello, Nicola A1 - Ricciardi, Emiliano A1 - Gentili, Claudio A1 - Sani, Lorenzo A1 - Bonino, Daniela A1 - Guazzelli, Mario A1 - Pietrini, Pietro A1 - Landini, Luigi A1 - Chiarenza, Giuseppe A. N2 - This work proposes a mathematical approach for combining event-related potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI). Data were separately recorded during the same event-related experimental design, consisting of visually presented single letters and non-alphabetic symbols, that had to be either simply observed (passive condition) or read aloud (active condition). This protocol was useful for exploring the neural correlates of reading processes. Healthy adults participated in the experiment. Averaged ERPs were decomposed by independent component analysis; low resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) was applied to estimate the current density distribution maps of each independent component. fMRI images time series were analyzed by multiple linear regression. ERP-fMRI correspondence was quantified by computing the Euclidean distance between LORETA local maxima and clusters of significantly activated fMRI voxels. During reading aloud of letters, that is clearly the task most similar to natural reading conditions, significant electrical and hemodynamic response was observed in the left medial frontal gyrus (BA 6) and left middle temporal gyrus (BA 22/39) just before articulation and in the bilateral middle superior temporal gyrus (BA 22/37) during and after verbal-motor production. These results indicate that the middle-superior temporal gyrus plays a crucial and multifunctional role in grapheme-phoneme matching SP - 984 ID - eprints3537 T2 - Proceeding of the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EP - 987 ER -