A DCM study of spectral asymmetries in feedforward and feedback connections between visual areas V1 and V4 in the monkey

NeuroImage

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 460-475

  Bastos, A M ^a,b   Litvak, V ^c   Moran, R ^c   Bosman, C A ^d,e   Fries, P ^a,d   Friston, K J ^c  

^a ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Beta oscillations; Computation; Connectivity; Dynamic causal modeling; Gamma oscillations; Neuronal; Synchronization coherence; Transfer functions

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BETA RHYTHM; CAUSAL MODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DYNAMIC CAUSAL MODELING; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK CONNECTION; FEEDFORWARD CONNECTION; GAMMA RHYTHM; MACACA; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROFEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL AREA V4; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAPLORHINI; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HAPLORHINI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE NET; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84922212465     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.081     Document Type: Article

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