The direction of information flow within electroencephalogram(EEG)and the relationship between functional coupling at different electrode pairs and cardiac automatic nervous system during a mental arithmetic(MA)task are explored with partial directed coherence(PDC). Forty-three healthy male subjects voluntarily participate in the project. The sympathetic and parasympathetic activities are estimated with heart rate variability obtained by power spectral analysis of R-R intervals. The results show that when mental arithmetic task is implemented heart rate increases(P<0.01)
the sympathetic activity increases and the sympathetic activity decreases(P<0.01); relative wavelet packet energy in alpha rhythm of EEG decreases and the beta rhythm of EEG increases significantly(P<0.01); the direction of the information flow changed from posterior-to-anterior direction to anterior-to-posterior direction and the information flow get stronger(P<0.05). There are obvious correlations between the increases of frontal and posterior coupling and heart rate variability(P<0.05). It is noted that anterior-to-posterior direction of the cortical functional coupling enhanced with the decrease of parasympathetic activity and increase of sympathetic activity
and the post-central areas influence heart rate by virtue of increasing sympathetic activity and decreasing parasympathetic activity during MA.
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