Beta oscillations relate to the N400m during language comprehension

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2898-2912

  Wang, Lin ^a,b,c   Jensen, Ole ^b   Van den Brink, Danielle ^b   Weder, Nienke ^b   Schoffelen, Jan Mathijs ^b   Magyari, Lilla ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^a,b   Bastiaansen, Marcel ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Beta oscillations; ERF; Language comprehension; MEG; N400m; Semantic violation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84868668743     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21410     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Alegre M, Labarga A, Gurtubay IG, Iriarte J, Malanda A, Artieda J (2003): Movement-related changes in cortical oscillatory activity in ballistic, sustained and negative movements. Exp Brain Res 148: 17-25.
2. Baayen RH, Piepenbrock R, van Rijn H (1993): The CELEX Lexical Database (CD-ROM). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
3. Baggio G, Hagoort P (2011): The balance between memory and unification in semantics: Towards a dynamic account of the N400. Lang Cog Proc 26: 1338-1367.
4. Bastiaansen M, Magyari L, Hagoort P (2009): Syntactic unification operations are reflected in oscillatory dynamics during on-line sentence comprehension. J Cogn Neurosci 22: 1333-1347.
5. Bastiaansen M, Oostenveld R, Jensen O, Hagoort P (2008): I see what you mean: Theta power increases are involved in the retrieval of lexical semantic information. Brain Lang 106: 15-28.
6. Bastiaansen M, Schoo LA, Hagoort P (2006): Oscillatory Neuronal Dynamics in the MEG During Syntactic Unification. 12th Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping. Florence, Italy.
7. Bastiaansen CM, van der Linden M, ter Keurs M, Dijkstra T, Hagoort P (2005): Theta responses are involved in lexical-Semantic retrieval during language processing. J Cogn Neurosci 7: 530-541.
8. Bastiaansen MC, Knosche TR (2000): Tangential derivative mapping of axial MEG applied to event-related desynchronization research. Clin Neurophysiol 111: 1300-1305.
9. Bastiaansen MCM, Hagoort P (2006): Oscillatory brain dynamics during language comprehension. In: Klimesch W, Neuper C, editors. Event-Related Dynamics of Brain Oscillations. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. pp 182-196.
10. Bookheimer S (2002): Functional MRI of language: New approaches to understanding the cortical organization of semantic processing. Annu Rev Neurosci 25: 151-188.
11. Braeutigam S, Bailey AJ, Swithenby SJ (2001): Phase-locked gamma band responses to semantic violation stimuli. Brain Res: Cogn Brain Res 10: 365-377.
12. Dale AM, Fischl B, Sereno MI (1999): Cortical surface-based analysis: I. Segmentation and surface reconstruction. Neuroimage 9: 179-194.
13. Dale AM, Liu AK, Fischl BR, Buckner RL, Belliveau JW, Lewine JD, Halgren E (2000): Dynamic statistical parametric mapping: Combining fMRI and MEG for high-resolution imaging of cortical activity. Neuron 26: 55-67.
14. Davidson DJ, Indefrey P (2007): An inverse relation between event-related and time-frequency violation responses in sentence processing. Brain Res 1158: 81-92.
15. Elger CE, Grunwald T, Lehnertz K, Kutas M, Helmstaedter C, Brockhaus A, Van Roost D, Heinze HJ (1997): Human temporal lobe potentials in verbal learning and memory processes. Neuropsychologia 35: 657-667.
16. Gross J, Kujala J, Hämäläinen M, Timmermann L, Schnitzler A, Salmelin R (2001): Dynamic imaging of coherent sources: Studying neural interactions in the human brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98: 694-699.
17. Hagoort P (2005): On Broca, brain, and binding: A new framework. Trends Cogn Sci 9: 416-423.
18. Hagoort P, Hald L, Bastiaansen MCM, Petersson KM (2004): Integration of word meaning and world knowledge in language comprehension. Science 304: 438-441.
19. Hald LA, Bastiaansen MCM, Hagoort P (2006): EEG theta and gamma responses to semantic violations in online sentence processing. Brain Lang 96: 90-105.
20. Halgren E, Baudena P, Heit G, Clarke M, Marinkovic K (1994a) Spatio-temporal stages in face and word processing. 1. Depth recorded potentials in the human occipital and parietal lobes. J Physiology Paris 88: 1-50.
21. Halgren E, Baudena P, Heit G, Clarke M, Marinkovic K, Chauvel P (1994b) Spatio-temporal stages in face and word processing. 2. Depth-recorded potentials in the human frontal and Rolandic cortices. J Physiology Paris 88: 51-80.
22. Halgren E, Dhond RP, Christensen N, Van Petten C, Marinkovic K, Lewine JD (2002): N400-like magnetoencephalography responses modulated by semantic context, word frequency, and lexical class in sentences. Neuroimage 17: 1101-1116.
23. Hanslmayr S, Klimesch W, Sauseng P, Gruber W, Doppelmayr M, Freunberger R, Pecherstorfer T, Birbaumer N (2007): Alpha phase reset contributes to the generation of ERPs. Cerebral Cortex 17: 1-8.
24. Helenius P, Salmelin R, Richardson U, Leinonen S, Lyytinen H (2002): Abnormal auditory cortical activation in dyslexia 100 msec after speech onset. J Cogn Neurosci 14: 603-617.
25. Helenius P, Salmelin R, Service E, Connolly JF (1998): Distinct time courses of word and context comprehension in the left temporal cortex. Brain 121: 1133-1142.
26. Hirata M, Kato A, Taniguchi M, Saitoh Y, Ninomiya H, Ihara A, Kishima H, Oshino S, Baba T, Yorifuji S, Yoshimine T (2004): Determination of language dominance with synthetic aperture magnetometry: Comparison with the Wada test. Neuroimage 23: 46-53.
27. Hirata M, Koreeda S, Sakihara K, Kato A, Yoshimine T, Yorifuji S (2007): Effects of the emotional connotations in words on the frontal areas-A spatially filtered MEG study. Neuroimage 35: 420-429.
28. Hämäläinen M (2009): MNE Software. User's Guide. MGH/HMS/MIT Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA.
29. Hämäläinen M, Hari R, Ilmoniemi RJ, Knuutila J, Lounasmaa OV (1993): Magnetoencephalography-Theory, instrumentation, and applications to noninvasive studies of the working human brain. Rev Mod Phys 6: 413-497.
30. Hämäläinen M, Ilmoniemi R (1994): Interpreting magnetic fields of the brain: Minimum norm estimates. Med Biol Eng Comput 32: 35-42.
31. Intriligator J, Polich J (1994): On the relationship between background EEG and the P300 event-related potential. Biol Psychol 37: 207-218.
32. Jasiukaitis P, Hakerem G (1988): The effect of prestimulus alpha activity on the P300. Psychophysiology 25: 157-165.
33. Kaiser J, Birbaumer N, Lutzenberger W (2001): Event-related beta desynchronization indicates timing of response selection in a delayed-response paradigm in humans. Neurosci Lett 312: 149-152.
34. Karrasch M, Laine M, Rapinoja P, Krause CM (2004): Effects of normal aging on event-related desynchronization/synchronization during a memory task in humans. Neurosci Lett 366: 18-23.
35. Kim JS, Chung CK (2008): Language lateralization using MEG beta frequency desynchronization during auditory oddball stimulation with one-syllable words. NeuroImage 42: 1499-1507.
36. Klimesch W (1999): EEG alpha and theta oscillations reflect cognitive and memory performance: A review and analysis. Brain Res Rev 29: 169-195.
37. Klimesch W, Doppelmayr M, Pachinger T, Ripper B (1997a) Brain oscillations and human memory: EEG correlates in the upper alpha and theta band. Neurosci Lett 238: 9-12.
38. Klimesch W, Doppelmayr M, Pachinger T, Russegger H (1997b) Event-related desynchronization in the alpha band and the processing of semantic information. Cogn Brain Res 6: 83-94.
39. Klimesch W, Neuper C (2006): Oscillatory Brain Dynamics During Language Comprehension. Amsterdam: The Netherlands, Elsevier.
40. Kutas M, Federmeier K (2000): Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension. Trends Cogn Sci 4: 436-470.
41. Kutas M, Federmeier KD (2011): Thirty years and counting: finding meaning in the N400 component of the event-related brain potential (ERP). Annu Rev Psychol 62: 621-647.
42. Lau EF, Phillips C, Poeppel D (2008): A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400. Nat Rev Neurosci 9: 920-933.
43. Liu X, Qi H, Wang S, Wan M (2006): Wavelet-based estimation of EEG coherence during Chinese Stroop task. Comput Biol Med 36: 1303-1315.
44. Maris E, Oostenveld R (2007): Nonparametric statistical testing of EEG- and MEG-data. J Neurosci Methods 164: 177-190.
45. Makeig S, Debener S, Onton J, Delorme A (2004): Mining event-related brain dynamics. Trends Cogn Sci 8: 204-210.
46. Makeig S, Westerfield M, Jung T-P, Enghoff S, Townsend J, Courchesne E, Sejnowski TJ (2002): Dynamic brain sources of visual evoked responses. Science 295: 690-694.
47. Mäkinen V, Tiitinen H, May P (2005): Auditory event-related responses are generated independently of ongoing brain activity. NeuroImage 24: 961-968.
48. Mathewson KE, Gratton G, Fabiani M, Beck DM, Ro T (2009): To see or not to see: Prestimulus alpha phase predicts visual awareness. J Neurosci 29: 2725-2732.
49. Mazaheri A, Picton TW (2005): EEG spectral dynamics during discrimination of auditory and visual targets. Cogn Brain Res 24: 81-96.
50. McCarthy G, Nobre AC, Bentin S, Spencer DD (1995): Language-related field potentials in the anterior-medial temporal lobe: I. Intracranial distribution and neural generators. J Neurosci 15: 1080-1089.
51. Nobre A, McCarthy G (1995): Language-related field potentials in the anterior-medial temporal lobe: II. Effects of word type and semantic priming. J Neurosci 15: 1090-1098.
52. Nolte G (2003): The magnetic lead field theorem in the quasi-static approximation and its use for magnetoencephalography forward calculation in realistic volume conductors. Phys Med Biol 48: 3637-3652.
53. Oostenveld R, Fries P, Maris E, Schoffelen JM (2011): Field trip: Open source software for advanced analysis of MEG, EEG, and invasive electrophysiological data. Comput Intell Neurosci 156869.
54. Parkes LM, Bastiaansen MCM, Norris DG (2006): Combining EEG and fMRI to investigate the post-movement beta rebound. Neuroimage 29: 685-696.
55. Pesonen M, Bjornberg CH, Hamalainen H, Krause CM (2006): Brain oscillatory 1-30 Hz EEG ERD/ERS responses during the different stages of an auditory memory search task. Neurosci Lett 399: 45-50.
56. Peterson DA, Thaut MH (2002): Delay modulates spectral correlates in the human EEG of non-verbal auditory working memory. Neurosci Lett 328: 17-20.
57. Pfurtscheller G, Lopes da Silva FH (1999): Event-related EEG-MEG synchronization and desynchronization: Basic principles. Clin Neurophysiol 110: 1842-1857.
58. Pfurtscheller G, Stancák A, Jr, Neuper C (1996): Post-movement beta synchronization: A correlate of an idling motor area? Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 98: 281-293.
59. Pfurtscheller G, Zalaudek K, Neuper C (1998): Event-related beta synchronization after wrist, finger and thumb movement. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol/Electromyogr Motor Control 109: 154-160.
60. Rohm D, Klimesch W, Haider H, Doppelmayr M (2001): The role of theta and alpha oscillations for language comprehension in the human electroencephalogram. Neurosci Lett 310: 137-140.
61. Salmelin RH, Hämäläinen MS (1995): Dipole modeling of MEG rhythms in time and frequency domains. Brain Topogr 7: 251-257.
62. Salmelin R, Service E, Kiesila P, Uutela K, Salonen O (1996): Impaired visual word processing in dyslexia revealed with magnetoencephalography. Ann Neurol 40: 157-162.
63. Schack B, Chen ACN, Mescha S, Witte H (1999): Instantaneous EEG coherence analysis during the Stroop task. Clin Neurophysiol 110: 1410-1426.
64. Shah AS, Bressler SL, Knuth KH, Ding M, Mehta AD, Ulbert I, Schroeder CE (2004): Neural dynamics and the fundamental mechanisms of event-related brain potentials. Cereb Cortex 14: 476-483.
65. Sheth BR, Sandkd́uhler S, Bhattacharya J (2009): Posterior beta and anterior gamma oscillations predict cognitive insight. J Cogn Neurosci 21: 1269-1279.
66. Sinkkonen J, Tiitinen H, Näatänen R (1995): Gabor filters: An informative way for analysing event-related brain activity. J Neurosci Methods 56: 99-104.
67. Snijders TM, Petersson KM, Hagoort P (2010): Effective connectivity of cortical and subcortical regions during unification of sentence structure. NeuroImage 52: 1633-1644.
68. Stancák AJr, Pfurtscheller G (1996): Event-related desynchronisation of central beta-rhythms during brisk and slow self-paced finger movements of dominant and nondominant hand. Cogn Brain Res 4: 171-183.
69. Supp GG, Schlögl A, Gunter TC, Bernard M, Pfurtscheller G, Petsche H (2004): Lexical memory search during N400: Cortical couplings in auditory comprehension. NeuroReport 15: 1209-1213.
70. Tallon-Baudry C (2003): Oscillatory synchrony and human visual cognition. J Physiol (Paris) 97: 355-363.
71. Tallon-Baudry C, Bertrand O (1999): Oscillatory gamma activity in humans and its role in object representation. Trends Cogn Sci 3: 151-162.
72. Tallon-Baudry C, Bertrand O, Delpuech C, Pernier J (1996): Stimulus specificity of phase-locked and non-phase-locked 40 Hz visual responses in human. J Neurosci 16: 4240-4249.
73. van den Brink D, Brown CM, Hagoort P (2001): Electrophysiological evidence for early contextual influences during spoken-word recognition: N200 versus N400 effects. J Cogn Neurosci 13: 967-985.
74. Vartiainen J, Parviainen T, Salmelin R (2009): Spatiotemporal convergence of semantic processing in reading and speech perception. J Neurosci 29: 9271-9280.
75. Weiss S, Mueller HM (2003): The contribution of EEG coherence to the investigation of language. Brain Lang 85: 325-343.
76. Weiss S, Mueller HM, Schack B, King JW, Rappelsberger P (2005): Increased neuronal communication accompanying sentence comprehension. Int J Psychophysiol 57: 129-141.
77. Xiang H-D, Fonteijn HM, Norris DG, Hagoort P (2010): Topographical functional connectivity pattern in the perisylvian language networks. Cereb Cortex 20: 549-560.
78. Yamamoto M, Ukai S, Shinosaki K, Ishii R, Kawaguchi S, Ogawa A, Mizuno-Matsumoto Y, Fujita N, Yoshimine T, Takeda M (2006): Spatially filtered Magnetoencephalographic analysis of cortical oscillatory changes in basic brain rhythms during the Japanese "Shiritori" word generation task. Neuropsychobiology 53: 215-222.