Objective. Despite increasing evidence revealing the relationship between task-related brain activity and decision-making, the association between resting-state functional connectivity and decision-making remains unknown. Approach. In this study, we investigated the potential relationship between the network revealed in the resting-state electroencephalogram (EEG) and decision responses and further predicted individuals’ acceptance rates during the ultimatum game (UG) based on the functional connectivity revealed in the resting-state EEG. Main results. The results of this study demonstrated a significant relationship between the resting-state frontal-occipital connectivity and the UG acceptance rate in the alpha band. Increased acceptance rates were accompanied by a larger clustering coefficient and global and local efficiency as well as a shorter characteristic path length. Compared to the low-acceptance group, the high-acceptance group exhibited stronger frontal-occipital linkages. Finally, a multiple linear regression model based on the resting-state EEG network properties was adopted to predict the acceptance rates when subjects made their decision in the UG task. Significance. Together, the findings of this study may deepen our knowledge of decision-making and provide a potential physiological biomarker to predict the decision-making responses of subjects.
Brain network analysis is one efficient tool in exploring human brain diseases and can differentiate the alterations from comparative networks. The alterations account for time, mental states, tasks, individuals, and so forth. Furthermore, the changes determine the segregation and integration of functional networks that lead to network reorganization (or reconfiguration) to extend the neuroplasticity of the brain. Exploring related brain networks should be of interest that may provide roadmaps for brain research and clinical diagnosis. Recent electroencephalogram (EEG) studies have revealed the secrets of the brain networks and diseases (or disorders) within and between subjects and have provided instructive and promising suggestions and methods. This review summarized the corresponding algorithms that had been used to construct functional or effective networks on the scalp and cerebral cortex. We reviewed EEG network analysis that unveils more cognitive functions and neural disorders of the human and then explored the relationship between brain science and artificial intelligence which may fuel each other to accelerate their advances, and also discussed some innovations and future challenges in the end.
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