From local inhibition to long-range integration: A functional dissociation of alpha-band synchronization across cortical scales in visuospatial attention

Brain Research

Volumn 1303, Issue , 2009, Pages 97-110

  Doesburg, Sam M ^a,b   Green, Jessica J ^c   McDonald, John J ^c   Ward, Lawrence M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpha band; Functional integration; Inhibition; Neural synchrony; Oscillatory dynamics; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CUES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849095517     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.09.069     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Babiloni C., Vecchio F., Bultrini A., Luca Romani G., and Rossini P.M. Pre- and poststimulus alpha rhythms are related to conscious visual perception: a high-resolution EEG study. Cereb. Cortex 16 12 (2006) 1690-1700
2. Bullmore E., and Sporns O. Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems. Nat. Rev., Neurosci. 10 (2009) 186-198
3. Cooper N.R., Croft R.J., Dominey S.J., Burgess A.P., and Gruzelier J.H. Paradox lost? Exploring the role of alpha oscillations during externally vs. internally directed attention and the implications for idling and inhibition hypotheses. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 47 (2003) 65-74
4. Corbetta M., and Shulman G.L. Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain. Nat. Rev., Neurosci. 3 3 (2002) 201-215
5. Corbetta M., Akbudak E., Conturo T.E., Snyder A.Z., Ollinger J.M., Drury H.A., Linenweber M.R., Petersen S.E., Raichle M.E., Van Essen D.C., and Shulman G.L. A common network of functional areas for attention and eye movements. Neuron 21 (1998) 761-774
6. Corbetta M., Kincade J.M., Ollinger J.M., McAvoy M.P., and Shulman G.L. Voluntary orienting is dissociated from target detection in human posterior parietal cortex. Nat. Neurosci. 3 (2000) 292-297
7. Doesburg S.M., and Ward L.M. Long-distance alpha-band MEG synchronization maintains selective visual attention. Int. Congr. Ser. 1300 (2007) 551-554
8. Doesburg S.M., Roggeveen A.B., Kitajo K., and Ward L.M. Large-scale gamma-band phase synchronization and selective attention. Cereb. Cortex 18 2 (2008) 386-396
9. Foxe J.J., Simpson G.V., and Ahlfors S.P. Parietal-occipital ∼10 Hz activity reflects anticipatory state of visual attention mechanisms. NeuroReport 9 17 (1998) 3929-3933
10. Freunberger R., Klimesch W., Greismayr B., Sauseng P., and Ahlfors S.P. Alpha phase coupling reflects object recognition. NeuroImage 42 2 (2008) 928-935
11. Fries P. A mechanism for cognitive dynamics: neuronal communication through neuronal coherence. Trends Cog. Sci. 9 (2005) 474-480
12. Fries P., Reynolds J.H., Rorie A.E., and Desimone R. Modulation of oscillatory neural synchronization by selective visual attention. Science 291 (2001) 1560-1563
13. Fries P., Womelsdorf T., Oostenveld R., and Desimone R. The effects of visual stimulation and selective visual attention on rhythmic neuronal synchronization in macaque area V4. J. Neurosci. 28 18 (2008) 4823-4835
14. Fu K.G., Foxe J.J., Murray M.M., Higgins D.C., Javitt D.C., and Schroeder C.E. Attention-dependent suppression of distracter visual input can be cross-modally cued as indexed by parietal-occipital alpha-band oscillations. Cogn. Brain Res. 12 (2001) 145-152
15. Giesbrecht B., Woldorff M.G., Song A.W., and Mangun G.R. Neural mechanisms of top-down control during spatial and feature attention. NeuroImage 19 (2003) 496-512
16. Gitelman D.R., Nobre A.C., Parrish T.B., LaBar K.S., Kim Y.-H., Meyer J.R., and Mesulam M. A large-scale distributed network for covert spatial attention: further anatomical delineation based on stringent behavioural and cognitive controls. Brain 122 6 (1999) 1093-1106
17. Green J.J., and McDonald J.J. Electrical neuroimaging reveals timing of attentional control activity in human brain. PLoS Biol. 6 4 (2008) e81
18. Green J.J., and McDonald J.J. A practical guide to beamformer source reconstruction for EEG. In: Handy T.C. (Ed). Brain signal analysis: Advances in neuroelectric and neuromagnetic methods (2009), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 76-98
19. Grent-'t-Jong T., and Woldorff M.G. Timing and sequence of brain activity in top-down control of visual-spatial attention. PLoS Biol. 5 1 (2007) e12
20. Gross J., Kujala J., Hamalainen M., Timmermann L., Schnitzler A., and Salmelin R. Dynamic imaging of coherent sources: studying neural interactions in the human brain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 98 (2001) 694-699
21. Gruber W.R., Klimesch W., Sauseng P., and Doppelmayer M. Alpha phase synchronization predicts P1 and N1 latency and size. Cereb. Cortex 15 (2005) 371-377
22. Hanslmayr S., Klimesch W., Sauseng P., Gruber W., Doppelmayr M., Freunberger R., and Pecherstorfer T. Visual discrimination performance is related to decreased alpha amplitude but increased phase locking. Neurosci. Lett. 375 1 (2005) 64-68
23. Hanslmayr S., Klimesch W., Sauseng P., Gruber W., Doppelmayr M., Freunberger R., Pecherstorfer T., and Birbaumer N. Alpha phase reset contributes to the generation of ERPs. Cereb. Cortex 17 (2007) 1-8
24. Hoechstetter K., Bornfleth H., Weckesser D., Ille N., Berg P., and Scherg M. BESA source coherence: a new method to study cortical oscillatory coupling. Brain Topogr. 16 (2004) 233-238
25. Hopfinger J.B., Buonocore M.H., and Mangun G.R. The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control. Nat. Neurosci. 3 (2000) 284-291
26. Hummel F., and Gerloff G. Larger interregional synchrony is associated with greater behavioral success in a complex sensory integration task in humans. Cereb. Cortex 15 (2005) 670-678
27. Kelly S.P., Lalor E.C., Reilly R.B., and Foxe J.J. Increases in alpha oscillatory power reflect an active retinotopic mechanism for distracter suppression during sustained visuospatial attention. J. Neurophysiol. 95 6 (2006) 3844-3851
28. Kincade J.M., Abrams R.A., Astafiev S.V., Shulman G.L., and Corbetta M. An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study of voluntary and stimulus-driven orienting of attention. J. Neurosci. 25 (2005) 4593-4604
29. Kitajo K., Doesburg S.M., Yamanaka K., Nozaki D., Ward L.M., and Yamamoto Y. Noise-induced large-scale phase synchronization of human-brain activity associated with behavioural stochastic resonance. Europhys. Lett. 80 (2007) 1-6
30. Klimesch W., Sauseng P., and Hanslmayr S. EEG alpha oscillations: the inhibition timing hypothesis. Brian Res. Rev. 53 1 (2007) 63-88
31. Klopp J., Marinovic K., Chauvel P., Nevov V., and Halgren E. Early widespread cortical distribution of coherent fusiform face selective activity. Hum. Brain Mapp. 11 (2000) 286-293
32. Kujala J., Prammer K., Cornelissen P., Roebroek A., Formisano E., and Salmelin R. Phase coupling in a cerebro-cerebellar network at 8-13 Hz. Cereb. Cortex 17 (2006) 1476-1485
33. Lachaux J.P., Rodriguez E., Martinerie J., and Varela F.J. Measuring phase synchrony in brain signals. Hum. Brain Mapp. 8 4 (1999) 94-208
34. Laufs A., Kleinschidt A., Martinerie J., Beyerle A., Eger E., Salek-Haddadi A., Preibisch C., and Krakow K. EEG-correlated fMRI of human alpha activity. NeuroImage 19 (2003) 1463-1476
35. Linkenkaer-Hansen K., Nikulin V.V., Palva S., Ilmoniemi R.J., and Palva J.M. Prestimulus oscillations enhance psychophysical performance in humans. J. Neurosci. 24 45 (2004) 10186-10190
36. Luck S.J., Heinze H.J., Mangun G.R., and Hillyard S.A. Visual event-related potentials within bilateral stimulus arrays. Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. 75 (1990) 528-542
37. Mangun G.R., and Hillyard S.A. Modulation of sensory-evoked brain potentials provide evidence for changes in perceptual processing during visual-spatial priming. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 17 (1991) 1057-1074
38. Mazaheri A., and Jensen O. Posterior alpha activity is not phase-reset by visual stimuli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 103 (2006) 2948-2952
39. Mazaheri A., and Jensen O. Asymetric amplitude modulations of brain oscillations generate slow evoked responses. J. Neurosci. 28 31 (2008) 7781-7787
40. McDonald J.J., and Green J.J. Isolating event-related potential components associated with voluntary control of visuo-spatial attention. Brain Res. 1227 (2008) 96-109
41. Mima T., Oluwatimilehin T., Hiaoka T., and Hallet M. Transient interhemispheric neural synchrony correlates with object recognition. J. Neurosci. 21 (2001) 3942-3948
42. Min B.-K., Busch N.A., Debener S., Kranczioch C., Hanslmayr S., Engel A.K., and Herrmann C.S. The best of both worlds: phase-reset of human EEG alpha activity and additive power contribute to ERP generation. Int. J. Physiol. 65 (2007) 58-68
43. Mizuhara H., Wang L.-Q., Kobayashi K., and Yamaguchi Y. Long-range EEG phase synchronization during an arithmetic task indexes a coherent cortical network simultaneously measured by fMRI. NeuroImage 27 (2005) 553-563
44. Palva S., and Palva J.M. New vistas for alpha-frequency band oscillations. Trends Neurosci. 30 (2007) 150-158
45. Palva J.M., Palva S., and Kaila K. Phase synchrony among neuronal oscillations in the human cortex. J. Neurosci. 25 15 (2005) 3962-3972
46. Pfurtscheller G., and Neuper C. Event-related synchronization of mu rhythm in the EEG over the cortical hand area in man. Neurosci. Lett. 174 (1994) 93-96
47. Pfurtscheller G., Stancak A., and Neuper C. Event-related synchronization (ERS) in the alpha-band-an electrophysiological correlate of cortical idling: a review. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 24 (1996) 39-46
48. Pollok B., Krause V., Butz M., and Schnitzler A. Modality specific functional interaction in sensorimotor synchronization. Hum. Brain Mapp. 30 (2009) 1783-1790
49. Rihs T.A., Michel C.M., and Thut G. Mechanisms of selective inhibition in visual spatial attention are indexed by α-band EEG synchronization. Eur. J. Neurosci. 25 (2007) 603-610
50. Risner M.L., Aura C.J., Black J.E., and Gawne T.J. The visual evoked potential is independent of surface alpha rhythm phase. NeuroImage 45 (2009) 463-469
51. Romei V., Brodbeck V., Michel C., Amedi A., Amedi A., Pascual-Leone A., and Thut G. Spontaneous fluctuations in posterior α-band EEG activity reflect variability in excitability of human visual areas. Cereb. Cortex 18 9 (2007) 2010-2018
52. Sauseng P., Klimesch W., Stadler W., Schabus M., Doppelmayr S., and Gruber W.R. A shift of visual spatial attention is selectively associated with human EEG alpha activity. Eur. J. Neurosci. 22 (2005) 2917-2926
53. Sauseng P., Klimesch W., Doppelmayr S., Pecherstorfer T., Freunberger R., and Hanslmayer S. EEG alpha synchronization and functional coupling during top-down processing in a working memory task. Hum. Brain Mapp. 26 (2005) 148-155
54. Serences J.T., and Yantis S. Spatially selective representations of voluntary and stimulus-driven attentional priority in human occipital, parietal, and frontal cortex. Cereb. Cortex 17 (2007) 284-293
55. Sherg M., Ille N., Bornfleth H., and Berg P. Advanced tools for digital EEG review: Virtual source montages, whole-head mapping, correlation, and phase analysis. J. Clin. Neurophysiol. 19 (2002) 91-112
56. Singh K.D., Barnes G.R., and Hillebrand A. Group imaging of task-related changes in cortical synchronisation using nonparametric permutation testing. NeuroImage 19 (2003) 1589-1601
57. Suffczynski P., Kalitzen S., Pfurtscheller G., and Lopes de Silva F.H. Computational model of thalamo-cortical networks: dynamical control of alpha rhythms in relation to focal attention. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 43 (2001) 25-40
58. Thut G., Théoret H., Pfennig A., Ives J., Kampmann F., Northoff G., and Pascual-Leone A. Differential effects of low-frequency rTMS at the occipital pole on visual-induced alpha desynchronization and visual-evoked potentials. NeuroImage 18 (2003) 334-347
59. Thut G., Nietzel A., Brandt S.A., and Pascual-Leone A. Band electroencephalographic activity over occipital cortex indexes visuospatial attention bias and predicts visual target detection. J. Neurosci. 26 (2006) 9494-9502
60. Van Veen B.D., van Drongelen W., Yuchtman M., and Suzuki A. Localization of brain electrical activity via linearly constrained minimum variance spatial filtering. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 44 (1997) 867-880
61. Varela F., Lachaux J.P., Rodriguez E., and Martinerie J. The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration. Nat. Rev., Neurosci. 2 4 (2001) 229-239
62. von Stein A., and Sarnthein J. Different frequencies for different scales of cortical integration: from local gamma to long range alpha/theta synchronization. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 38 (2000) 301-313
63. von Stein A., Chiang C., and König P. Top-down processing mediated by interareal synchronization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 97 26 (2000) 1453-14748
64. Ward L.M., and Doesburg S.M. Synchronization analysis in EEG and MEG. In: Handy T.C. (Ed). Brain signal analysis: Advances in neuroelectric and neuromagnetic methods (2009), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 171-204
65. Woldorff M.G., Hazlett C.J., Fichtenholtz H.M., Weissman D.H., Dale A.M., and Song A.W. Functional parcellation of attentional control regions of the brain. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 16 (2004) 149-165
66. Worden M.S., Foxe J.J., Wang N., and Simpson G.V. Anticipatory biasing of visuospatial attention indexed by retinotopically specific-band electroencephalography increases over occipital cortex. J. Neurosci. 20 RC63 (2000) 1-6
67. Yamagishi N., Callan D.E., Goda N., Anderson S.J., Yoshida Y., and Kawato M. Attentional modulation of oscillatory activity in human visual cortex. NeuroImage 20 (2003) 98-113
68. Yamagishi N., Goda N., Callan D.E., Anderson S.J., and Kawato M. Attentional shifts toward an expected visual target alter the level of alpha-band oscillatory activity in human calcarine cortex. Cogn. Brain Res. 25 (2005) 799-809
69. Yantis S., Schwarzbach J., Sarences J.T., Carlson R.L., Steimetz M.A., Pekar J.J., and Courtney S.M. Transient neural activity in human parietal cortex during spatial attention shifts. Nat. Neurosci. 5 (2002) 995-1002