Emotion-Related Rich-Club Organization in Dynamic Brain Network

The information interaction when the brain processes emotional activities is intricate. Therefore, it is very necessary for us to explore the mechanisms of the functional coordination of various brain regions. Recent studies have demonstrated that there are hub regions in the brain that are highly connected and highly central, and are responsible for coordinating dynamic interactions between brain regions. This study aims to construct the dynamic brain networks related to emotions and examine the structure of the hubs of these networks that reflect functional connectivity. In this paper, we demonstrate that a combination of network hubs set a closely connected collective called “rich-club”,which can be used as the core network architecture for identifying different emotions. According to the phase synchronization relationship of the Electroencephalogram (EEG) in three time periods to construct the corresponding brain networks in different sub-states, we found that the dynamic connection patterns produced by different emotions are different, which is manifested in the different rich-club organization. The discovery of rich-club structure related to emotions in this study is of great significance for studying the brain mechanisms behind human emotional processes.