Título Effect of the side of presentation in the visual field on phase-locked and nonphase-locked alpha and gamma responses
Autores Sarrias-Arrabal, Esteban , Martin-Clemente, Ruben , GALVAO CARMONA, ALEJANDRO, Luisa Benitez-Lugo, Maria , Vazquez-Marrufo, Manuel
Publicación externa No
Medio Sci. Rep.
Alcance Article
Naturaleza Científica
Cuartil JCR 2
Cuartil SJR 1
Impacto JCR 4.60000
Impacto SJR 0.97300
Web https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135243499&doi=10.1038%2fs41598-022-15936-7&partnerID=40&md5=efe9cd075f5dbdf70d940bd0647fa8c1
Fecha de publicacion 01/08/2022
ISI 000834992200005
Scopus Id 2-s2.0-85135243499
DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-15936-7
Abstract Recent studies have suggested that nonphase-locked activity can reveal cognitive mechanisms that cannot be observed in phase-locked activity. In fact, we describe a concomitant decrease in nonphase-locked alpha activity (desynchronization) when stimuli were processed (alpha phase-locked modulation). This desynchronization may represent a reduction in "background activity" in the visual cortex that facilitates stimulus processing. Alternatively, nonphase-locked gamma activity has been hypothesized to be an index of shifts in attentional focus. In this study, our main aim was to confirm these potential roles for nonphase-locked alpha and gamma activities with a lateralized Go/NoGo paradigm. The results showed that nonphase-locked alpha modulation is bilaterally represented in the scalp compared to the contralateral distribution of the phase-locked response. This finding suggests that the decrease in background activity is not limited to neural areas directly involved in the visual processing of stimuli. Additionally, gamma activity showed a higher desynchronization of nonphase-locked activity in the ipsilateral hemisphere, where the phase-locked activity reached the minimum amplitude. This finding suggests that the possible functions of nonphase-locked gamma activity extend beyond shifts in attentional focus and could represent an attentional filter reducing the gamma representation in the visual area irrelevant to the task.
Palabras clave attention; cognition; electroencephalography; photostimulation; physiology; vision; visual cortex; visual field; Attention; Cognition; Electroencephalography; Photic Stimulation; Visual Cortex; Visual
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