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This study explores dynamic functional connectivity in chess players using resting-state fMRI data analyzed through a Vector Auto-Regression model. The research identifies key brain region connections that distinguish chess masters from novices, achieving a classification accuracy of 96.33%, significantly higher than previous studies. The findings suggest that the proposed method utilizing only rs-fMRI data provides a notable advancement in classifying chess expertise.

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This study explores dynamic functional connectivity in chess players using resting-state fMRI data analyzed through a Vector Auto-Regression model. The research identifies key brain region connections that distinguish chess masters from novices, achieving a classification accuracy of 96.33%, significantly higher than previous studies. The findings suggest that the proposed method utilizing only rs-fMRI data provides a notable advancement in classifying chess expertise.

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Unraveling the Cognitive Secrets of Chess Experts: Investigating Dynamic


Functional Brain Connectivity through rs-fMRI Analysis

Conference Paper · November 2024

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Malisha Kapugamage Rasika Rajapaksha


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Unraveling the Cognitive Secrets of Chess


Experts: Investigating Dynamic Functional
Brain Connectivity through rs-fMRI Analysis
Malisha Kapugamage1 , Dr. Rasika Rajapaksha2
University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
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[email protected] 2 [email protected]

Abstract

This study investigates the dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) in resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI)
data of chess players using a Vector Auto-Regression (VAR) model. The VAR model was constructed
using the Group Lasso and Sliding Window technique. The study included 116 brain regions, and
their correlation was examined in the context of their dynamic connection. Statistical feature selection
techniques were used to determine which dynamic connections of brain areas were crucial in discrimi-
nating chess masters from novice players. After identifying key DFCs related to these brain regions, a
classification model was built to classify chess experts and normal control individuals.
Our classification model achieved an accuracy of 96.33% under a 10-fold cross-validation frame-
work. This performance represents a substantial improvement over previous studies utilizing only rs-
fMRI data, which reported a maximum accuracy of 85.45%, indicating a 10.88% enhancement in
accuracy. Moreover, our model outperformed methods that combined rs-fMRI with T1-weighted MRI
data, which achieved an accuracy of 88%, yielding an additional 8.33% improvement. These results
demonstrate that our approach, relying solely on rs-fMRI data, offers a notable advancement in the
classification of chess expertise

Index Terms

Dynamic Functional Connectivity, Vector Auto-Regression, resting-state fMRI, Chess Master and
Novice, Classification

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