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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 342, Issue 3, Pages 191-195Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00226-X
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steady-state visual evoked potentials; working memory; prefrontal cortex; low resolution electromagnetic tomography
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- PHS HHS [K01] Funding Source: Medline
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Steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) reflect power changes at the stimulus driving frequency and have been used to assess brain activity reflecting cognitive processing. Only one study has demonstrated SSVEP modulation associated with working memory (WM), and none have compared the spatial localization of SSVEP modulations during WM performance with other brain imaging methods. Here we examined WM-related activity recorded with dense-array SSVEPs, analyzed using low resolution electromagnetic tomography, and compared the results to our previous findings using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). WM was associated with increased SSVEP activity over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, paralleling our previous fMRI findings. Frontal WM-related SSVEP power correlated selectively with task performance. These results demonstrate the utility of SSVEPs for studying representational aspects of cognition. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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