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ArticleScientific reports2021

Testing covariance models for MEG source reconstruction of hippocampal activity.

George C O'Neill, Daniel N Barry, Tim M Tierney, Stephanie Mellor, Eleanor A Maguire, Gareth R Barnes

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  1. Multimodal MEG and Microstructure-MRI Investigations of the Human Hippocampal Scene Network.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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George C O'NeillWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK. g.o'neill@ucl.ac.uk.
Daniel N BarryDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
Tim M TierneyWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
Stephanie MellorWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
Eleanor A MaguireWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
Gareth R BarnesWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.

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Wellcome 210567/Z/18/ZWellcome Trust 203257/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beamforming is one of the most commonly used source reconstruction methods for magneto- and electroencephalography (M/EEG). One underlying assumption, however, is that distant sources are uncorrelated and here we tested whether this is an appropriate model for the human hippocampal data. We revised the Empirical Bayesian Beamfomer (EBB) to accommodate specific a-priori correlated source models. We showed in simulation that we could use model evidence (as approximated by Free Energy) to distinguish between different correlated and uncorrelated source scenarios. Using group MEG data in which the participants performed a hippocampal-dependent task, we explored the possibility that the hippocampus or the cortex or both were correlated in their activity across hemispheres. We found that incorporating a correlated hippocampal source model significantly improved model evidence. Our findings help to explain why, up until now, the majority of MEG-reported hippocampal activity (typically making use of beamformers) has been estimated as unilateral.

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Bayes TheoremBrain MappingCerebral CortexComputer SimulationElectroencephalographyHippocampusHumansMagnetoencephalographyModels, NeurologicalSignal Processing, Computer-Assisted

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