Cued spatial attention drives functionally relevant modulation of the mu rhythm in primary somatosensory cortex.
Cued spatial attention drives functionally relevant modulation of the mu rhythm in primary somatosensory cortex.
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10.1523/jneurosci.2969-10.2010
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2010-10-13
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Moore CI
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Jones SR;Kerr CE;Wan Q;Pritchett DL;Hämäläinen M;Moore CI
Cued spatial attention modulates functionally relevant alpha rhythms in visual cortices in humans. Here, we present evidence for analogous phenomena in primary somatosensory neocortex (SI). Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we measured changes in the SI mu rhythm containing mu-alpha (7-14 Hz) and mu-beta (15-29 Hz) components. We found that cued attention impacted mu-alpha in the somatopically localized hand representation in SI, showing decreased power after attention was cued to the hand and increased power after attention was cued to the foot, with significant differences observed 500-1100 milliseconds (ms) post-cue. Mu-beta showed differences in a time window 800–850ms post-cue. The visual cue also drove an early evoked response beginning ~70ms post-cue with distinct peaks modulated with cued attention. Distinct components of the tactile stimulus-evoked response were also modulated with cued attention. Analysis of a second data set showed that, on a trial-by-trial basis, tactile detection probabilities decreased linearly with pre-stimulus mu-alpha and mu-beta power. These results support the growing consensus that cue-induced alpha modulation is a functionally relevant sensory gating mechanism deployed by attention. Further, while cued attention had a weaker effect on the allocation of mu-beta, oscillations in this band also predicted tactile detection.