期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 28, 期 40, 页码 10056-10061出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1776-08.2008
关键词
cerebral cortex; fMRI; vision; attention; Granger causality; frontal cortex; parietal cortex
资金
- J.S. McDonnell Foundation
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [F30 NS057926-01, R01 NS48013]
- National Institute of Mental Health [R01 MH7192006]
- Marie Curie Chair European Union [MEXC-CT-2004-006783]
Advance information about an impending stimulus facilitates its subsequent identification and ensuing behavioral responses. This facilitation is thought to be mediated by top-down control signals from frontal and parietal cortex that modulate sensory cortical activity. Here we show, using Granger causality measures on blood oxygen level-dependent time series, that frontal eye field (FEF) and intraparietal sulcus (IPS) activity predicts visual occipital activity before an expected visual stimulus. Top-down levels of Granger causality from FEF and IPS to visual occipital cortex were significantly greater than both bottom-up and mean cortex-wide levels in all individual subjects and the group. In the group and most individual subjects, Granger causality was significantly greater from FEF to IPS than from IPS to FEF, and significantly greater from both FEF and IPS to intermediate-tier than lower-tier ventral visual areas. Moreover, top-down Granger causality from right IPS to intermediate-tier areas was predictive of correct behavioral performance. These results suggest that FEF and IPS modulate visual occipital cortex, and FEF modulates IPS, in relation to visual attention. The current approach may prove advantageous for the investigation of interregional directed influences in other human brain functions.
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