Cerebral Cortex Advance Access originally published online on September 15, 2004
Cerebral Cortex 2005 15(5):654-662; doi:10.1093/cercor/bhh167
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Cerebral Cortex V 15 N 5 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved
Attention Modulates Gamma-band Oscillations Differently in the Human Lateral Occipital Cortex and Fusiform Gyrus
1 LENA CNRS UPR 640, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, 47 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France, 2 INSERM U280, 151 cours Albert Thomas, 69003 Lyon, France and 3 Hôpital Neurologique, 59 Bd Pinel, 69003 Lyon, France
Address correspondence to Catherine Tallon-Baudry, LENA CNRS UPR 640, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, 47 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France. Email: catherine.tallon-baudry{at}chups.jussieu.fr.
We studied the existence, localization and attentional modulation of gamma-band oscillatory activity (30–130 Hz) in the human intracranial region. Two areas known to play a key role in visual object processing: the lateral occipital (LO) cortex and the fusiform gyrus. These areas consistently displayed large gamma oscillations during visual stimulus encoding, while other extrastriate areas remained systematically silent, across 14 patients and 291 recording sites scattered throughout extrastriate visual cortex. The lateral extent of the responsive regions was small, in the range of 5 mm. Induced gamma oscillations and evoked potentials were not systematically co-localized. LO and the fusiform gyrus displayed markedly different patterns of attentional modulation. In the fusiform gyrus, attention enhanced stimulus-driven gamma oscillations. In LO, attention increased the baseline level of gamma oscillations during the expectation period preceding the stimulus. Subsequent gamma oscillations produced by attended stimuli were smaller than those produced by unattended, irrelevant stimuli. Attentional modulations of gamma oscillations in LO and the fusiform gyrus were thus very different, both in their time-course (preparatory period and/or stimulus processing) and direction of modulation (increase or decrease). Our results thus suggest that the functional role of gamma oscillations depends on the area in which they occur.
Key Words: attention • extrastriate cortex • intracranial EEG • synchrony • vision
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