RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Explainable Exploration of the Interplay between HRV Features and EEG Local Connectivity Patterns in Dyslexia.
A1 Formoso Trigo, Marco A.
A1 Gallego-Molina, Nicolás J.
A1 Ortiz-García, Andrés
A1 Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Ignacio
A1 Giménez-de-la-Peña, Almudena
K1 Electroencefalografía
K1 Dislexia
AB Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a measure of the variationin time between successive heartbeats, reflecting the influence of the au-tonomic nervous system on the heart. It can provide insights into the bal-ance between sympathetic and parasympathetic activity. The relation-ship between autonomic nervous system function, specifically parasym-pathetic activity, and certain learning disorders, including dyslexia, iscurrently under study. In this paper, we propose the use of explain-able techniques to explore the relationships between HRV markers andlocal functional brain activity, estimated by cross-frequency coupling(CFC) from electroencephalography (EEG) signals recorded while audi-tory stimuli were applied to 7-year-old children. We analyze EEG data toexamine the phase-to-phase brainwave coupling and use machine learn-ing tools such as XGBoost and Shapley values to reveal brain regions thatmost contribute to different HRV features, with a focus on parasympa-thetic activity. Our findings suggest that HRV features related to stresscan explain differential activations in the auditory cortex (Brodmannareas 39 and 40) during auditory stimulation in dyslexic children.
YR 2024
FD 2024-06-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31899
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31899
LA eng
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 3 mar 2026