Category-Specific Visual Responses: An Intracranial Study Comparing Gamma, Beta, Alpha, and ERP Response Selectivity

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serval:BIB_BF4477FEF3B5
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
Title
Category-Specific Visual Responses: An Intracranial Study Comparing Gamma, Beta, Alpha, and ERP Response Selectivity
Journal
Front Hum Neurosci
Author(s)
Vidal J. R., Ossandon T., Jerbi K., Dalal S. S., Minotti L., Ryvlin P., Kahane P., Lachaux J. P.
ISSN
1662-5161 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1662-5161
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2010
Volume
4
Pages
195
Language
english
Notes
Vidal, Juan R
Ossandon, Tomas
Jerbi, Karim
Dalal, Sarang S
Minotti, Lorella
Ryvlin, Philippe
Kahane, Philippe
Lachaux, Jean-Philippe
eng
Switzerland
Front Hum Neurosci. 2010 Nov 11;4:195. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00195. eCollection 2010.
Abstract
The specificity of neural responses to visual objects is a major topic in visual neuroscience. In humans, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have identified several regions of the occipital and temporal lobe that appear specific to faces, letter strings, scenes, or tools. Direct electrophysiological recordings in the visual cortical areas of epileptic patients have largely confirmed this modular organization, using either single-neuron peri-stimulus time-histogram or intracerebral event-related potentials (iERP). In parallel, a new research stream has emerged using high-frequency gamma-band activity (50-150 Hz) (GBR) and low-frequency alpha/beta activity (8-24 Hz) (ABR) to map functional networks in humans. An obvious question is now whether the functional organization of the visual cortex revealed by fMRI, ERP, GBR, and ABR coincide. We used direct intracerebral recordings in 18 epileptic patients to directly compare GBR, ABR, and ERP elicited by the presentation of seven major visual object categories (faces, scenes, houses, consonants, pseudowords, tools, and animals), in relation to previous fMRI studies. Remarkably both GBR and iERP showed strong category-specificity that was in many cases sufficient to infer stimulus object category from the neural response at single-trial level. However, we also found a strong discrepancy between the selectivity of GBR, ABR, and ERP with less than 10% of spatial overlap between sites eliciting the same category-specificity. Overall, we found that selective neural responses to visual objects were broadly distributed in the brain with a prominent spatial cluster located in the posterior temporal cortex. Moreover, the different neural markers (GBR, ABR, and iERP) that elicit selectivity toward specific visual object categories present little spatial overlap suggesting that the information content of each marker can uniquely characterize high-level visual information in the brain.
Keywords
Erp, faces, fusiform gyrus, gamma-band, iEEG, occipitotemporal cortex, visual object category, visual perception
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