Visual processing speed is linked to functional connectivity between right frontoparietal and visual networks release_p6grfiptabaoliztlu5wgd7l5q

by Svenja Küchenhoff, Christian Sorg, Sebastian Schneider, Oliver Kohl, Hermann J Müller, Kathrin Finke, Adriana Lucia Ruiz Rizzo

Released as a post by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

2020  

Abstract

Visual information processing requires an efficient visual attention system. The neural theory of visual attention (TVA) proposes that visual processing speed depends on the coordinated activity between frontoparietal and occipital brain areas. Previous research has shown that the coordinated activity between (i.e., functional connectivity, 'inter-FC') cingulo-opercular (COn) and right-frontoparietal (RFPn) networks is linked to visual processing speed. However, evidence for how inter-FC of COn and RFPn with visual networks links to visual processing speed is still missing. Forty-eight healthy human adult participants (27 females) underwent resting-state (rs-)fMRI and performed a whole-report psychophysical task. To obtain inter-FC, we analyzed the entire frequency range available in our rs-fMRI data (i.e., 0.01-0.4 Hz) to avoid discarding neural information. Following previous approaches, we analyzed the data across frequency bins (Hz): Slow-5 (0.01-0.027), Slow-4 (0.027-0.073), Slow-3 (0.073-0.198), and Slow-2 (0.198-0.4). We used the mathematical TVA framework to estimate an individual, latent-level visual processing speed parameter. We found that visual processing speed was negatively associated with inter-FC between RFPn and visual networks in Slow-5 and Slow-2, with no corresponding significant association for inter-FC between COn and visual networks. These results provide first empirical evidence that links inter-FC between RFPn and visual networks with the visual processing speed parameter. These findings suggest a direct connectivity between occipital and right frontoparietal, but not frontoinsular, regions, to support visual processing speed.
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