Spanning the rich spectrum of the human brain: slow waves to gamma and beyond
Spanning the rich spectrum of the human brain: slow waves to gamma and beyond
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DOI:
10.1007/s00429-011-0307-z
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发表时间:
2011-06-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Jerbi, Karim
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作者:
Dalal, Sarang S.;Vidal, Juan R.;Jerbi, Karim
In their recent editorial, Nunez and Srinivasan (2010) assert that gamma band activity and intracranial recordings have been receiving an inordinate amount of attention in recent years. We agree that brain dynamics must be examined at all possible scales and across several frequency bands, and that it would be foolish to restrict our understanding of brain dynamics exclusively to intracranial recordings or higher frequency content. However, a number of points raised by the authors require further consideration. How much emphasis is ‘‘too much’’? A PubMed search of publications since 2007 reveals that the distribution of citations across frequency bands roughly follow their corresponding power distribution in the resting scalp EEG (see Fig. 1), with 1,356 papers citing alpha or mu rhythms, while 790 cite gamma band activity and only 60 mention high gamma activity. Meanwhile, since 2007, 14,992 publications have cited EEG or MEG, while only 337 mention intracranial EEG. 1