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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Naue, Nicole
• Strüber, Daniel
• Fründ, Ingo
• Schadow, Jeanette
• Lenz, Daniel
• Rach, Stefan
• Körner, Ursula
• Herrmann, Christoph S.

Titel

Gamma in motion: Pattern reversal elicits stronger gamma-band responses than motion

Ist Teil von

• NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.), 2011-03, Vol.55 (2), p.808-817

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Previous studies showed higher gamma-band responses (GBRs, ≈40Hz) of the electroencephalogram (EEG) for moving compared to stationary stimuli. However, it is unclear whether this modulation by motion reflects a special responsiveness of the GBR to the stimulus feature “motion,” or whether GBR enhancements of similar magnitude can be elicited also by a salient change within a static stimulus that does not include motion. Therefore, we measured the EEG of healthy subjects watching stationary square wave gratings of high contrast that either started to move or reversed their black and white pattern shortly after their onset. The strong contrast change of the pattern reversal represented a salient but motionless change within the grating that was compared to the onset of the stationary grating and the motion onset. Induced and evoked GBRs were analyzed for all three display conditions. In order to assess the influenceof fixational eye movements on the induced GBRs, we also examined the time courses of microsaccade rates during the three display conditions. Amplitudes of both evoked and induced GBRs were stronger for pattern reversal than for motion onset. There was no significant amplitude difference between the onsets of the stationary and moving gratings. However, mean frequencies of the induced GBR were ~10Hz higher in response to the onsets of moving compared to stationary gratings. Furthermore, the modulations of the induced GBR did not parallel the modulations of microsaccade rate, indicating that our induced GBRs reflect neuronal processes. These results suggest that, within the gamma-band range, the encoding of moving gratings in early visual cortex is primarily based on an upward frequency shift, whereas contrast changes within static gratings are reflected by amplitude enhancement. ► Human EEG gamma-band responses are modulated more strongly by pattern reversal than by motion. ► Evoked and induced gamma-band responses show different responses to motion stimuli. ► Miniature saccades and induced gamma-band responses behave differently after stimulation.