Decomposing Neural Representational Patterns of Discriminatory and Hedonic Information during Somatosensory Stimulation
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Decomposing Neural Representational Patterns of Discriminatory and Hedonic Information during Somatosensory Stimulation. / Kryklywy, James H; Ehlers, Mana R; Beukers, Andre O; Moore, Sarah R; Todd, Rebecca M; Anderson, Adam K.
In: ENEURO, Vol. 10, No. 1, ENEURO.0274-22.2022, 12.2022.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Decomposing Neural Representational Patterns of Discriminatory and Hedonic Information during Somatosensory Stimulation
AU - Kryklywy, James H
AU - Ehlers, Mana R
AU - Beukers, Andre O
AU - Moore, Sarah R
AU - Todd, Rebecca M
AU - Anderson, Adam K
N1 - Copyright © 2023 Kryklywy et al.
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - The ability to interrogate specific representations in the brain, determining how, and where, difference sources of information are instantiated can provide invaluable insight into neural functioning. Pattern component modeling (PCM) is a recent analytic technique for human neuroimaging that allows the decomposition of representational patterns in brain into contributing subcomponents. In the current study, we present a novel PCM variant that tracks the contribution of prespecified representational patterns to brain representation across areas, thus allowing hypothesis-guided employment of the technique. We apply this technique to investigate the contributions of hedonic and nonhedonic information to the neural representation of tactile experience. We applied aversive pressure (AP) and appetitive brush (AB) to stimulate distinct peripheral nerve pathways for tactile information (C-/CT-fibers, respectively) while patients underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. We performed representational similarity analyses (RSAs) with pattern component modeling to dissociate how discriminatory versus hedonic tactile information contributes to population code representations in the human brain. Results demonstrated that information about appetitive and aversive tactile sensation is represented separately from nonhedonic tactile information across cortical structures. This also demonstrates the potential of new hypothesis-guided PCM variants to help delineate how information is instantiated in the brain.
AB - The ability to interrogate specific representations in the brain, determining how, and where, difference sources of information are instantiated can provide invaluable insight into neural functioning. Pattern component modeling (PCM) is a recent analytic technique for human neuroimaging that allows the decomposition of representational patterns in brain into contributing subcomponents. In the current study, we present a novel PCM variant that tracks the contribution of prespecified representational patterns to brain representation across areas, thus allowing hypothesis-guided employment of the technique. We apply this technique to investigate the contributions of hedonic and nonhedonic information to the neural representation of tactile experience. We applied aversive pressure (AP) and appetitive brush (AB) to stimulate distinct peripheral nerve pathways for tactile information (C-/CT-fibers, respectively) while patients underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. We performed representational similarity analyses (RSAs) with pattern component modeling to dissociate how discriminatory versus hedonic tactile information contributes to population code representations in the human brain. Results demonstrated that information about appetitive and aversive tactile sensation is represented separately from nonhedonic tactile information across cortical structures. This also demonstrates the potential of new hypothesis-guided PCM variants to help delineate how information is instantiated in the brain.
KW - Humans
KW - Brain Mapping/methods
KW - Brain/diagnostic imaging
KW - Touch
KW - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods
KW - Neuroimaging
U2 - 10.1523/ENEURO.0274-22.2022
DO - 10.1523/ENEURO.0274-22.2022
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 36549914
VL - 10
JO - ENEURO
JF - ENEURO
SN - 2373-2822
IS - 1
M1 - ENEURO.0274-22.2022
ER -