Study of asymmetry in motor areas related to handedness using the fMRI BOLD response Gaussian convolution model

Qing Gao, Huafu Chen and Qiyong Gong

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2009, vol. 42, issue 2, 1037-1045

Abstract: Brain asymmetry is a phenomenon well known for handedness, and has been studied in the motor cortex. However, few studies have quantitatively assessed the asymmetrical cortical activities for handedness in motor areas. In the present study, we systematically and quantitatively investigated asymmetry in the left and right primary motor cortices during sequential finger movements using the Gaussian convolution model approach based on the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) response. Six right-handed and six left-handed subjects were recruited to perform three types of hand movement tasks. The results for the expected value of the Gaussian convolution model showed that it took the dominant hand a longer average interval of response delay regardless of the handedness and bi- or uni-manual performance. The results for the standard deviation of the Gaussian model suggested that in the mass neurons, these intervals of the dominant hand were much more variable than those of the non-dominant hand. When comparing bi-manual movement conditions with uni-manual movement conditions in the primary motor cortex (PMC), both the expected value and standard deviation in the Gaussian function were significantly smaller (p<0.05) in the bi-manual conditions, showing that the movement of the non-dominant hand influenced that of the dominant hand.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2009.02.038

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