Neural underpinning of monitoring in different domains: an EEG-fMRI investigation

.................................................................................................................... 3 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 5 Chapter 1 MONITORING ............................................................................................. 7 1.1 Approaches to the study of Prefrontal Cortex .................................................... 7 1.2 The ROBBIA Model ............................................................................................. 9 1.2.1 Energization ............................................................................................... 10 1.2.2 Task Setting ................................................................................................ 10 1.2.3 Monitoring ................................................................................................. 11 1.3 Monitoring ....................................................................................................... 11 1.3.1 Time Monitoring: the Foreperiod Effect ...................................................... 11 1.3.2 Monitoring of Environmental Contingencies ............................................... 12 1.3.3 Errors and Conflict Monitoring ................................................................... 12 1.3.4 Monitoring Goal Progress ........................................................................... 13 1.3.5 Monitoring for a Visual Target ................................................................... 14 1.4 Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 15 Chapter 2 EEG-fMRI CO-REGISTRATION .................................................................... 17 2.1 The Basics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging ..................................................... 18 2.1.1 The MR Signal ............................................................................................ 18 2.1.2 MR Settings and Pulse Sequences ................................................................ 20 2.1.3 Bold Signal and Functional MRI .................................................................. 22 2.2 The Basics of Electroencephalography ............................................................. 24 2.2.1 The EEG Signal ............................................................................................ 24 2.2.2 Source Localization and Inverse Problem .................................................... 25 2.3 Simultaneous EEG-fMRI ................................................................................... 25 2.3.1 Specific Hardware and Issues of Simultaneous Data Acquisition ................. 26 2.3.2 EEG-fMRI Data Analysis .............................................................................. 28 2.4 Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 28 Chapter 3 METHODS................................................................................................. 31 3.1 Aim of the study ................................................................................................ 31