FMRI effective connectivity and TMS chronometry: complementary accounts of causality in the visuospatial judgment network

de Graaf, T.A., Jacobs, C., Roebroeck, A. and Sack, A.T. 2009. FMRI effective connectivity and TMS chronometry: complementary accounts of causality in the visuospatial judgment network. PLoS ONE. 4 (12) e8307. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008307

TitleFMRI effective connectivity and TMS chronometry: complementary accounts of causality in the visuospatial judgment network
TypeJournal article
Authorsde Graaf, T.A., Jacobs, C., Roebroeck, A. and Sack, A.T.
Abstract

Background

While traditionally quite distinct, functional neuroimaging (e.g. functional magnetic resonance imaging: fMRI) and functional interference techniques (e.g. transcranial magnetic stimulation: TMS) increasingly address similar questions of functional brain organization, including connectivity, interactions, and causality in the brain. Time-resolved TMS over multiple brain network nodes can elucidate the relative timings of functional relevance for behavior (“TMS chronometry”), while fMRI functional or effective connectivity (fMRI EC) can map task-specific interactions between brain regions based on the interrelation of measured signals. The current study empirically assessed the relation between these different methods.

Methodology/Principal Findings

One group of 15 participants took part in two experiments: one fMRI EC study, and one TMS chronometry study, both of which used an established cognitive paradigm involving one visuospatial judgment task and one color judgment control task. Granger causality mapping (GCM), a data-driven variant of fMRI EC analysis, revealed a frontal-to-parietal flow of information, from inferior/middle frontal gyrus (MFG) to posterior parietal cortex (PPC). FMRI EC-guided Neuronavigated TMS had behavioral effects when applied to both PPC and to MFG, but the temporal pattern of these effects was similar for both stimulation sites. At first glance, this would seem in contradiction to the fMRI EC results. However, we discuss how TMS chronometry and fMRI EC are conceptually different and show how they can be complementary and mutually constraining, rather than contradictory, on the basis of our data.

Conclusions/Significance

The findings that fMRI EC could successfully localize functionally relevant TMS target regions on the single subject level, and conversely, that TMS confirmed an fMRI EC identified functional network to be behaviorally relevant, have important methodological and theoretical implications. Our results, in combination with data from earlier studies by our group (Sack et al., 2007, Cerebral Cortex), lead to informed speculations on complex brain mechanisms, and TMS disruption thereof, underlying visuospatial judgment. This first in-depth empirical and conceptual comparison of fMRI EC and TMS chronometry thereby shows the complementary insights offered by the two methods.

Article numbere8307
JournalPLoS ONE
Journal citation4 (12)
ISSN1932-6203
Year2009
PublisherPublic Library of Science
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008307
Publication dates
Published14 Dec 2009

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