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Machado S, Arias-Carrión O, Sampaio I, Bittencourt J, Velasques B, Teixeira S, Nardi AE, Piedade R, Ribeiro P. Source Imaging of P300 Visual Evoked Potentials and Cognitive Functions in Healthy Subjects. Clin EEG Neurosci 2014; 45:262-268. [PMID: 24615930 DOI: 10.1177/1550059413514389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2013] [Accepted: 11/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The P300 event-related potential (EPR) is regarded as a neurophysiological indicator of cognitive processing of a stimulus. However, it is not known whether the P300 is a unitary component recorded on the scalp as a result of the activity of a specific intracerebral structure, or if it represents the sum of underlying components that may reflect the activation of broadly distributed intracerebral structures. The objective of the present experiment was to investigate possible correlations among the source(s) involved in the generation of the P300 and their possible neurocognitive function. The visual-evoked potential (VEP) was elicited by the oddball paradigm and analyzed after employment of sLORETA (standardized low-resolution electromagnetic tomography). The window of the P300 wave encompasses the period during which the response to the target and nontarget condition differs significantly (≈375 ms to ≈465 ms, with a peak at ≈422.5 ms). The results showed sequential and what appeared to be logical activation patterns of specific structures (specific for the processing of the stimulus used here) after presentation of the target stimulus. The peak of the P300 wave represented activation of the parahippocampal gyrus, which is responsible for upgrading memory in response to a target stimulus.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sergio Machado
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil .,Salgado de Oliveira University, Niterói, Brazil.,Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil.,Central University, Santiago, Chile
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- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Institute of Applied Neuroscience, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Veiga de Almeida University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Institute of Applied Neuroscience, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Institute of Applied Neuroscience, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Veiga de Almeida University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,National Institute of Translational Medicine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Institute of Applied Neuroscience, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The contribution of prefrontal and posterior association cortex to voluntary and involuntary visual attention was as sessed using electrophysiological techniques in patients with focal lesions in prefrontal (n = 11), temporal-parietal (n = 10), or lateral parietal cortex (n = 7). Subjects participated in a task requiring detection of designated target stimuli embedded in trains of repetitive stimuli. Infrequent and irrelevant novel visual stimuli were randomly interspersed with the target and background stimuli. Controls generated attention dependent N1 (170 msec) and N2 (243 msec) potentials maximal over extrastriate cortex. Anterior and posterior association cortex lesions reduced the amplitude of both the N1 and N2 potentials recorded over extrastriate cortex of the lesioned hemisphere. The pattern of results obtained reveals that an intrahemispheric network involving prefrontal and posterior association cortex modulates early visual processing in extrastriate regions. Voluntary target detection generated a parietal maximal P300 response (P3b) and irrelevant novel stimuli generated a more frontocentrally distributed P300 (P3a). Cortical lesions had differential effects on P3a and P3b potentials. The P3b was not significantly reduced in any cortical lesioned group. Conversely, the P3a was reduced by both prefrontal and posterior lesions with decrements most severe throughout the lesioned hemisphere. These data provide evidence that an association cortex network involving prefrontal and posterior regions is activated during orientation to novel events. The lack of a significant effect on the visual target P3b in patients with novelty P3a reductions supports the notion that different neural systems are engaged during voluntary vs involuntary atten- tion to visual stimuli.
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- R T Knight
- University of California, Davis, VA, Medical Center, Martinez
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NITTONO H. MISSING-STIMULUS POTENTIALS ASSOCIATED WITH A DISRUPTION OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION. PSYCHOLOGIA 2005. [DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2005.93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Herrmann CS, Knight RT. Mechanisms of human attention: event-related potentials and oscillations. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2001; 25:465-76. [PMID: 11595268 DOI: 10.1016/s0149-7634(01)00027-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 421] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Electrophysiological and hemodynamical responses of the brain allow investigation of the neural origins of human attention. We review attention-related brain responses from auditory and visual tasks employing oddball and novelty paradigms. Dipole localization and intracranial recordings as well as functional magnetic resonance imaging reveal multiple areas involved in generating and modulating attentional brain responses. In addition, the influence of brain lesions of circumscribed areas of the human cortex onto attentional mechanisms are reviewed. While it is obvious that damaged brain tissue no longer functions properly, it has also been shown that functions of non-lesioned brain areas are impaired due to loss of modulatory influence of the lesioned area. Both early (P1 and N1) and late (P3) event-related potentials are modulated by excitatatory and inhibitory mechanisms. Oscillatory EEG-correlates of attention in the alpha and gamma frequency range also show attentional modulation.
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- C S Herrmann
- Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, D-04303, Leipzig, Germany
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Buldyrev SV, Cruz L, Gomez-Isla T, Gomez-Tortosa E, Havlin S, Le R, Stanley HE, Urbanc B, Hyman BT. Description of microcolumnar ensembles in association cortex and their disruption in Alzheimer and Lewy body dementias. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:5039-43. [PMID: 10805766 PMCID: PMC25777 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.060009897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The cortex of the brain is organized into clear horizontal layers, laminae, which subserve much of the connectional anatomy of the brain. We hypothesize that there is also a vertical anatomical organization that might subserve local interactions of neuronal functional units, in accord with longstanding electrophysiological observations. We develop and apply a general quantitative method, inspired by analogous methods in condensed matter physics, to examine the anatomical organization of the cortex in human brain. We find, in addition to obvious laminae, anatomical evidence for tightly packed microcolumnar ensembles containing approximately 11 neurons, with a periodicity of about 80 microm. We examine the structural integrity of this new architectural feature in two common dementing illnesses, Alzheimer disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. In Alzheimer disease, there is a dramatic, nearly complete loss of microcolumnar ensemble organization. The relative degree of loss of microcolumnar ensembles is directly proportional to the number of neurofibrillary tangles, but not related to the amount of amyloid-beta deposition. In dementia with Lewy bodies, a similar disruption of microcolumnar ensemble architecture occurs despite minimal neuronal loss. These observations show that quantitative analysis of complex cortical architecture can be applied to analyze the anatomical basis of brain disorders.
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- S V Buldyrev
- Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Knight RT, Scabini D. Anatomic bases of event-related potentials and their relationship to novelty detection in humans. J Clin Neurophysiol 1998; 15:3-13. [PMID: 9502509 DOI: 10.1097/00004691-199801000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 246] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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- R T Knight
- Department of Neurology, Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, Veterans Medical Center, Martinez 94553, USA
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Basile LF, Brunder DG, Tarkka IM, Papanicolaou AC. Magnetic fields from human prefrontal cortex differ during two recognition tasks. Int J Psychophysiol 1997; 27:29-41. [PMID: 9161890 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8760(97)00784-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The present study represents our second successful use of magnetoencephalography to identify different sources of human prefrontal activity corresponding to subjects' engagement in different tasks. We used two visual recognition tasks: a familiar person recognition and an abstract pattern recognition task in the context of a design suitable for eliciting Contingent Negative Variations (CNVs) and their concurrent slow magnetic fields in this preliminary study of 5 subjects. Each trial of either task was started by one of two specific warning symbols (S1), indicating whether a person's picture or an abstract pattern should be attended during the presentation of a second stimulus (S2), and compared to the corresponding person's picture or pattern contained in the third stimulus, (S3) that followed. The S2 and S3 stimuli were common to both tasks, and were composed of patterns made with four line traces superimposed on photographs of persons familiar to each subject. Subjects responded with a right hand button press, following S3, indicating their judgments regarding the identity of the patterns or persons' pictures contained in the S2 and the S3 stimuli, for the two tasks, respectively. Results showed that the sources of the CNV equivalent magnetic fields were localized in different cortical regions depending on the task and that this difference was consistent across all subjects. The sources were localized in the right hemisphere, in medial areas of the prefrontal cortex for the person recognition task and in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for the pattern recognition task. The same degree of consistency was not found for the left hemisphere sources. Moreover, as in our previous study, we found no difference between the sources active during the first and the second CNV periods (occurring during the S1-S2 and the S2-S3 intervals, respectively), within each task condition.
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- L F Basile
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas, Houston Medical School, USA
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Roberts TP, Rowley HA. Magnetic Source Imaging as A Tool for Presurgical Functional Brain Mapping. Neurosurg Clin N Am 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s1042-3680(18)30314-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Basile LF, Rogers RL, Simos PG, Papanicolaou AC. Magnetoencephalographic evidence for common sources of long latency fields to rare target and rare novel visual stimuli. Int J Psychophysiol 1997; 25:123-37. [PMID: 9101337 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8760(96)00715-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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This study used magnetoencephalography to examine the possibility that different generators account for the long-latency event-related potential (P300), evoked by rare target and by rare non-target, novel visual stimuli, in a visual oddball counting task performed by seven subjects. As expected, P300 peak latency was longer in response to rare targets compared to novel, non-target stimuli. Two main source regions were found for the Target- as well as for the Novel-P300, one in the temporal and one in the occipital lobe. Centers of neural activity were observed in the vicinity of the superior temporal sulcus, in the hippocampal formation and parahippocampal gyrus and in the occipital extrastriate cortex. It appears that the brain structures which contributed to the generation of the P300 response to both the target and the novel visual stimuli overlapped to a great extent.
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- L F Basile
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center 77030, USA
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Kuriki S, Hirata Y, Fujimaki N, Kobayashi T. Magnetoencephalographic study on the cerebral neural activities related to the processing of visually presented characters. BRAIN RESEARCH. COGNITIVE BRAIN RESEARCH 1996; 4:185-99. [PMID: 8924047 DOI: 10.1016/s0926-6410(96)00030-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Neuromagnetic fields were recorded from normal subjects to study the time course of cerebral neural activation while they performed a matching task of visual stimuli in which sequentially presented Japanese characters or unreadable pseudo-characters were compared according to phonological (reading of the characters) or graphical (geometry of the pseudo-characters) identity. In response to the single real-character or pseudo-character which was presented the latest distinct magnetic field components were observed, from which current dipole sources of the fields were localized in the individual magnetic resonance images of the brain. In the phonological identification, the sources were found in the parieto-occipital extrastriate cortex at 155-210 ms following the character presentation, and in the posterior temporal region (part of the Wernicke's area) and the posterior superior temporal region of the visual/auditory association cortex at 210-410 ms. The activity in these temporal regions was left hemisphere dominant, and may be the neural basis of phonological processing of the visual characters. In the graphical identification, sources occurring at 125-250 ms were noted in the inferior temporo-occipital region, and those at 180-460 ms in the posterior temporal and posterior superior temporal regions of the right hemisphere. These results indicate that the activities in the temporal area are lateralized to the left for the phonological processing and to the right for the graphical processing.
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- S Kuriki
- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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Basile LFH, Simos PG, Tarkka IM, Brunder DG, Papanicolaou AC. Task-specific magnetic fields from the left human frontal cortex. Brain Topogr 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01191640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Rogers RL, Basile LFH, Bourbon WT, Taylor S, Sutherling W, Papanicolaou AC. Laterality of hippocampal responses to infrequent and unpredictable omissions of visual stimuli. Brain Topogr 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01191638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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McNay D, Michielssen E, Rogers RL, Taylor SA, Akhtari M, Sutherling WW. Multiple source localization using genetic algorithms. J Neurosci Methods 1996; 64:163-72. [PMID: 8699877 DOI: 10.1016/0165-0270(95)00122-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We present a new procedure for localizing simultaneously active multiple brain sources that overlap in both space and time on EEG recordings. The source localization technique was based on a spatio-temporal model and a genetic algorithm search routine. The method was successfully applied to the localization of two dipole sources from several sets of simulated potentials with various signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). The different SNR values resembled evoked responses and epileptic spikes as commonly seen in the laboratory. Results of the simulation studies yielded localization accuracy ranging from 0.01 to 0.07 cm with an SNR of 10; from 0.02 to 0.26 cm with an SNR of 5; and from 0.06 to 0.73 cm when the SNR was equal to 2. Additionally, two sets of simulations were based on the dipole arrangements and time activities of data obtained during electrical stimulation of the median nerve in human subjects. These studies yielded localization accuracy within 0.1 cm. We also studied the localization accuracy of the algorithm using a physical model incorporating potential measurements of two current dipoles embedded in a sphere. In this situation the algorithm was successful in localizing the two simultaneously active sources to within 0.07-0.15 cm.
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- D McNay
- Neuromagnetism Laboratory, Hospital of the Good Samaritan, Los Angeles, CA 90017, USA
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Neuromagnetic studies of responses in human auditory association cortex for tone burst stimuli provide evidence for a tonotopic organization. The magnetic source image for the 100 ms component evoked by the onset of a tone is qualitatively similar to that of primary cortex, with responses lying deeper beneath the scalp for progressively higher tone frequencies. However, the tonotopic sequence of association cortex in three subjects is found largely within the superior temporal sulcus, although in the right hemisphere of one subject some sources may be closer to the inferior temporal sulcus. The locus of responses for individual subjects suggests a progression across the cortical surface that is approximately proportional to the logarithm of the tone frequency, as observed previously for primary cortex, with the span of 10 mm for each decade in frequency being comparable for the two areas.
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- S Cansino
- Department of Physics, New York University, New York
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Basile LF, Rogers RL, Bourbon WT, Papanicolaou AC. Slow magnetic flux from human frontal cortex. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1994; 90:157-65. [PMID: 7510630 DOI: 10.1016/0013-4694(94)90007-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Slow magnetic fields concurrent with two successive contingent negative variations (CNVs) were elicited in 8 subjects during visual recognition tasks involving pattern versus place discrimination. All stimuli were presented as a rectangular array of lights with various patterns of 6 lights at the center and, simultaneously, with places indicated by missing lights at the periphery. One of two possible stimuli (warning) started each trial, indicating whether pattern or place recognition should be performed on the following two stimuli. The purposes of the experiment were to localize the sources of the slow magnetic fields equivalent to the CNVs and to address the issue of regional specialization of prefrontal cortical function. Results indicated that the equivalent current dipoles (ECDs) found as solutions for the measured slow fields were indeed localized in the prefrontal cortex of each hemisphere. Also, in the right hemisphere, the source location of the CNVs was dependent on task, which supported the hypothesis of specialization of prefrontal function. The place recognition task was associated with more anterior and inferior CNV sources than the pattern recognition task. Finally, it was observed that ECDs for the warning period CNVs were indistinguishable from those for the test period of the tasks.
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- L F Basile
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas at Houston 77030
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