Functional organization of primary somatosensory cortex depends on the focus of attention

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1451-1458

  Braun, Christoph ^a   Haug, Monika ^a   Wiech, Katja ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,b   Elbert, Thomas ^c   Roberts, Larry E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036431204     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1277     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Armstrong-James, M., Diamond, M. E., and Ebner, F. F. 1994. An innocuous bias in whisker use in adult rats modifies receptive fields of barrel cortex neurons. J. Neurosci. 14: 6978-6991.
2. Backes, W. H., Mess, W. H., van Kranen-Mastenbroeck, V., and Reulen, J. P. H. 2000. Somatosensory cortex responses to median nerve stimulation: fMRI effects of current amplitude and selective attention. Clin. Neurophysiol. 111: 1738-1744.
3. Braun, C., Wilms, A., Schweizer, R., Godde, B., Preissl, H., and Birbaumer, N. 2000a. Activity patterns of human somatosensory cortex adapt dynamically to stimulus properties. NeuroReport 11: 2977-2980.
4. Braun, C., Schweizer, R., Elbert, T., Birbaumer, N., and Taub, E. 2000b. Differential activation in somatosensory cortex for different discrimination tasks. J. Neurosci. 20: 446-450.
5. Brumberg, J. C., Pinto, D. J., and Simons, D. J. 1996. Spatial gradients and inhibitory summation in the rat whisker barrel system. J. Neurophysiol. 76: 130-140.
6. Buchner, H., Reinartz, U., Waberski, T. D., Gobbele, R., Noppeney, U., and Scherg, M. 1999. Sustained attention modulates the immediate effect of de-afferentation on the cortical representation of the digits: Source localization of somatosensory evoked potentals in humans. Neurosci. Lett. 260: 57-60.
7. Buchner, H., Kauert, C., and Radermacher, I. 1995. Short-term changes of finger representation at the somatosensory cortex in humans. Neurosci. Lett. 198: 57-59.
8. Buonomano, D. V., and Merzenich, M. M. 1998. Cortical plasticity: From synapses to maps. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 21: 149-186.
9. Cheyne, D., Roberts, L. E., Gaetz, W., Bosnyak, D. J., Nahmias, C., Christoforou, N., and Weinberg, H. 1998. Somatotopic organization of human somatosensory cortex: A comparison of EEG, MEG and fMRI methods. In Brain Topography Today (Y. Koga, K. Nagata, and K. Hirata, Eds.), pp. 76-81. Elsevier Excerpta Medica International Congress Series, Amsterdam.
10. Crist, R. E., Li, W., and Gilbert, C. D. 2001. Learning to see: Experience and attention in primary visual cortex. Nat. Neurosci. 4: 519-525.
11. Diamond, M. E., Huang, W., and Ebner, F. F. 1994. Laminar comparison of somatosensory cortical plasticity. Science 265: 1885-1888.
12. Elbert, T., Junghöfer, M., Scholz, B., and Schneider, S. 1995. Separation of overlapping neuronal sources in the first and second somatosensory cortices. Brain Topogr. 7: 275-282.
13. Elbert, T. 1998. Neuromagnetism. In Magnetism in Medicine (W. Andrä and H. Nowak, Eds.), pp. 190-262. Wiley, New York.
14. Gilbert, C. D. 1998. Adult cortical dynamics. Physiol. Rev. 78: 467-485.
15. Hari, R., and Ilmoniemi, R. J. 1986. Cerebral magnetic fields. Crit. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 14: 93-126.
16. Hari, R., Karhu, J., Hamalainen, M., Knuutila, J., Salonen, O., Sams, M., and Vilkman, V. 1993. Functional organization of the human first and second somatosensory cortices: A neuromagnetic study. Eur. J. Neurosci. 5: 724-734.
17. Howland, E. W., Wakai, R. T., Mjaanes, B. A., Balog, J. P., and Cleeland, C. S. 1995. Whole head mapping of magnetic fields following painful electric finger shock. Cogn. Brain Res. 2: 165-172.
18. Huttunen, J., Kobal, G., Kaukoranta, E., and Hari, R. 1986. Cortical responses to painful CO2 stimulation of nasal mucosa; A magnetoencephalographic study in man. Electroencephalog. Clin. Neurophysiol. 64: 347-349.
19. Iguchi, Y., Hoshi, Y., and Hashimoto, I. 2001. Selective spatial attention induces short-term plasticity in human somatosensory cortex. NeuroReport 12: 3133-3136.
20. Ito, M., and Gilbert, C. D. 1999. Attention modulates contextual influences in the primary visual cortex of alert monkeys. Neuron 22: 593-604.
21. Jenkins, W. M., Merzenich, M. M., Ochs, M. T., Allard, T., and Guic-Robles, E. 1990. Functional reorganization of primary somatosensory cortex in adult owl monkeys after behaviourally controlled tactile stimulation. J. Neurophysiol. 63: 82-104.
22. Karhu, J., and Tesche, C. D. 1999. Simultaneous early processing of sensory input in human primary (SI) and secondary (SII) somatosensory cortices. J. Neurophysiol. 81: 2017-2025.
23. Kitamura, Y., Kakigi, R., Hoshiyama, M., Koyama, S., Shimojo, M., and Watanabe, S. 1995. Pain-related somatosensory evoked magnetic fields. Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. 95: 463-474.
24. Liu, L. C., Gaetz, W. C., Bosnyak, D. J., and Roberts, L. E. 2000. Evidence for fusion and segregation induced by 21-Hz multiple-digit stimulation in humans. NeuroReport 11: 2313-2318.
25. Lütkenhöner, B., Menninghaus, E., Steinstrater, O., Wienbruch, C., Gissler, H. M., and Elbert, T. 1995. Neuromagnetic source analysis using magnetic resonance images for the construction of source and volume conductor model. Brain Topogr. 7: 291-299.
26. Mima, T., Nagamine, T., Nakamura, K., and Shibasaki, H. 1998. Attention modulates both primary and secondary cortical activities in humans: A magnetoencephalographic study. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2215-2221.
27. Mirabella, G., Battiston, S., and Diamond, M. E. 2001. Integration of multiple-whisker inputs in rat somatosensory cortex. Cereb. Cortex 11: 164-170.
28. Mogilner, A., Grossman, J. A., Ribary, U., Joliot, M., Volkmann, J., Rapaport, D., Beasley, R. W., and Llinas, R. R. 1993. Somatosensory cortical plasticity in audlt humans revealed by magnetoencephalography. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 3593-3597.
29. Moore, C. I., Nelson, S. B., and Sur, M. 1999. Dynamics of neuronal processing in rat somatosensory cortex. Trends Neurosci. 22: 513-520.
30. Moore, C. I., and Nelson, S. B. 1998. Spatio-temporal subthreshold receptive fields in the vibrissa representation of rat primary somatosensory cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2882-2892.
31. Motter, B. C. 1993. Focal attention produces spatially selective processing in visual cortical areas V1, V2, and V4 in the presence of competing stimuli. J. Neurophysiol. 70: 909-919.
32. Noppeney, U., Waberski, T. D., Gobbele, R., and Buchner, H. 1999. Spatial attention modulates the cortical somatosensory representation of the digits in humans. NeuroReport 10: 3137-3141.
33. Sheth, B. R., Moore, C. I., and Sur, M. 1998. Temporal modulation of spatial borders in rat barrel cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 79: 464-470.
34. Sterr, A., Müller, M. M., Elbert, T., Rockstroh, B., Pantev, C., and Taub, E. 1998. Perceptual correlates of use-dependent changes in cortical representation of the fingers in blind Braille readers. J. Neurosci. 18: 4417-4423.
35. Swindale, N. V. 2000. How many maps are there in Visual Cortex? Cereb. Cortex 10: 633-643.
36. Wang, X., Merzenich, M. M., Sameshima, K., and Jenkins, W. M. 1995. Remodeling of hand representation in adult cortex determined by timing of tactile stimulation. Nature 378: 71-75.