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Volume 17, Number 2,
Issue of January 15, 1997
pp. 722-734
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Oscillatory -Band (30-70 Hz) Activity Induced by a Visual
Search Task in Humans
Received July 2, 1996; revised Oct. 21, 1996; accepted Oct. 24, 1996.
Catherine Tallon-Baudry,
Olivier Bertrand,
Claude Delpuech, and
Jacques Pernier
Brain Signals and Processes Laboratory, Institut National de la
Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U280, F-69424 Lyon Cedex
03, France
The coherent representation of an object in the visual system has
been suggested to be achieved by the synchronization in the -band
(30-70 Hz) of a distributed neuronal assembly. Here we measure
variations of high-frequency activity on the human scalp. The
experiment is designed to allow the comparison of two different
perceptions of the same picture. In the first condition, an apparently
meaningless picture that contained a hidden Dalmatian, a neutral
stimulus, and a target stimulus (twirled blobs) are presented. After
the subject has been trained to perceive the hidden dog and its mirror
image, the second part of the recordings is performed (condition 2).
The same neutral stimulus is presented, intermixed with the picture of
the dog and its mirror image (target stimulus). Early (95 msec)
phase-locked (or stimulus-locked) -band oscillations do not vary
with stimulus type but can be subdivided into an anterior component (38 Hz) and a posterior component (35 Hz). Non-phase-locked -band
oscillations appear with a latency jitter around 280 msec after
stimulus onset and disappear in averaged data. They increase in
amplitude in response to both target stimuli. They also globally
increase in the second condition compared with the first one. It is
suggested that this -band energy increase reflects both bottom-up
(binding of elementary features) and top-down (search for the hidden
dog) activation of the same neural assembly coding for the Dalmatian.
The relationships between high- and low-frequency components of the
response are discussed, and a possible functional role of each
component is suggested.
Key words:
vision;
feature binding;
synchronization;
temporal code;
40 Hz;
oscillations;
human;
evoked potentials;
EEG
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