Statistical complexity of cerebral blood velocity dynamics varies across graded arithmetic task demands - 08/09/26
, Max Chacón aAbstract |
Increasing cognitive demand is accompanied by task-related cerebral hemodynamic changes but mean and variance alone may not describe their temporal organization. We assessed whether statistical complexity measures (SCM) derived from bilateral middle cerebral artery blood-velocity (CBv) signals varied across five arithmetic task levels in 26 healthy young adults (mean age 23.4 ± 2.1 years). Behavioral performance and NASA-TLX workload were also collected. For the primary Rényi configuration (embedding dimension m = 7, alpha = 1.4), SCM varied across baseline and task levels (Jensen-Rényi: Friedman chi-square = 56.98, FDR-adjusted p = 1.02x10-10, Kendall's W = 0.456; Jensen-Shannon: chi-square = 70.23, FDR-adjusted p = 3.66x10-13, W = 0.562). Paired Wilcoxon tests with Holm correction identified differences for three of four adjacent task-level transitions (levels 2-3, 3-4, and 4-5), whereas levels 1-2 were not different. Conventional bilateral mean CBv also varied by level (chi-square = 41.79, FDR-adjusted p = 1.11x10-7, W = 0.418). The mean of the recorded arterial-pressure channel did not differ after FDR correction (p = 0.081), although its variance showed a small effect (W = 0.110, FDR-adjusted p = 0.032). These findings demonstrate that SCM provides a sensitive complementary characterization of task-related cerebral hemodynamic dynamics and supports its potential for scalable, within-person monitoring of graded cognitive demand.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Cognitive effort assessment, Cerebral hemodynamics, Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography, Entropy, Statistical complexity
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