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Spatial attention increases high-frequency gamma synchronisation in human medial visual cortex

Koelewijn, Loes ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7890-171X, Rich, Anina N., Muthukumaraswamy, Suresh Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7042-3920 and Singh, Krish Devi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3094-2475 2013. Spatial attention increases high-frequency gamma synchronisation in human medial visual cortex. NeuroImage 79 , pp. 295-303. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.108

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Abstract

Visual information processing involves the integration of stimulus and goal-driven information, requiring neuronal communication. Gamma synchronisation is linked to neuronal communication, and is known to be modulated in visual cortex both by stimulus properties and voluntarily-directed attention. Stimulus-driven modulations of gamma activity are particularly associated with early visual areas such as V1, whereas attentional effects are generally localised to higher visual areas such as V4. The absence of a gamma increase in early visual cortex is at odds with robust attentional enhancements found with other measures of neuronal activity in this area. Here we used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to explore the effect of spatial attention on gamma activity in human early visual cortex using a highly effective gamma-inducing stimulus and strong attentional manipulation. In separate blocks, subjects tracked either a parafoveal grating patch that induced gamma activity in contralateral medial visual cortex, or a small line at fixation, effectively attending away from the gamma-inducing grating. Both items were always present, but rotated unpredictably and independently of each other. The rotating grating induced gamma synchronisation in medial visual cortex at 30–70 Hz, and in lateral visual cortex at 60–90 Hz, regardless of whether it was attended. Directing spatial attention to the grating increased gamma synchronisation in medial visual cortex, but only at 60–90 Hz. These results suggest that the generally found increase in gamma activity by spatial attention can be localised to early visual cortex in humans, and that stimulus and goal-driven modulations may be mediated at different frequencies within the gamma range.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Psychology
Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords: Attention; Vision; MEG; Gamma oscillations; Early visual cortex
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 1053-8119
Funders: Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2022 11:24
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/47977

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