1 LENA CNRS UPR 640, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, 47 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France, 2 INSERM U280, 151 cours Albert Thomas, 69003 Lyon, France and 3 Hôpital Neurologique, 59 Bd Pinel, 69003 Lyon, France
Address correspondence to Catherine Tallon-Baudry, LENA CNRS UPR 640, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, 47 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France. Email: catherine.tallon-baudry{at}chups.jussieu.fr.
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Key Words: attention extrastriate cortex intracranial EEG synchrony vision
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Introduction |
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If gamma oscillatory synchrony were to play an important functional role, it should be confined to some discrete active regions rather than being ubiquitous in the brain, and this localization should be consistent from one subject to the other. Our first objective was thus to determine which regions were systematically engaged in oscillatory synchrony in all subjects and to check how these regions matched against the known functional anatomy of the human visual system.
Our second objective was to describe how these gamma oscillations were modulated by attention. Oscillatory synchrony could not only signal relatedness but could also act as a powerful attentional filter (Fries et al., 2001b, 2002
): synchronized outputs are likely to be more efficient on the target structure at the next processing stage than unsynchronized ones. Stimulus-driven gamma oscillations are indeed modulated by attention at the scalp level in humans (Gruber et al., 1999
; Shibata et al., 1999
). More generally, attention is known to modulate not only sensory responses, but also the activity preceding stimulus onset, when the subject prepares to attend (Luck et al., 1997
; Kastner and Ungerleider, 2000
). So-called baseline shifts raise many questions (Driver and Frith, 2000
; Driver and Frackowiak, 2001
). In particular, how they might influence the following sensory response has not been much documented, although it is usually held they should convey some advantage to subsequent stimulus processing.
A series of 14 patients with depth electrodes implanted in extrastriate visual cortex were recorded in a blocked experimental design (Fig. 1). In the attend condition, subjects prepared to attend while fixating a central cross (baseline) and actively processed the incoming stimulus for delayed comparison with a second stimulus. In the unattend condition, subjects knew they had to detect a change in the luminance of the central fixation cross that could only occur at the end of the trial. No activity other than fixation was thus required during baseline in the unattend condition, and the first stimulus was irrelevant. Subjects were reminded which task to perform at the beginning of each recording block. We present here how attention modulates both the gamma activity preceding stimulus onset and the gamma sensory response, in the lateral occipital cortex (LO) and the fusiform gyrus, two regions that play a key role in visual object processing as shown in numerous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies.
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Material and Methods |
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Fourteen patients (6 males, 8 females; mean age 34, range 2058 years) with medically intractable partial epilepsy were implanted with depth electrodes for presurgical seizure focus localization. Their visual acuities were normal or corrected to normal. One patient showed a scotoma that spared the central visual field. Recordings were performed at the end of the fortnight monitoring period, once a sufficient number of seizures had been recorded. At the time of recordings, most patients were under antiepileptic monotherapy, most often carbamazepine. Evoked potentials recording is part of the functional mapping of eloquent cortical areas that is performed routinely before epilepsy surgery in patients implanted with depth electrodes. According to the French regulations concerning invasive investigations with a direct individual benefit, patients were fully informed about the electrode implantation, stereotactic EEG (SEEG) and evoked potential (EP) recordings, and the cortical stimulation procedures used to localize the epileptogenic and eloquent brain areas. All patients gave their informed consent to participate in the experiment.
Electrodes and Implantation Sites
Electrode contacts were 2 mm long and spaced every 3.5 mm (center-to-center). Depth probes (diameter 0.8 mm) with 10 or 15 contacts each were inserted perpendicularly to the midsagittal plane (Figs 2 and 3) using Talairach's stereotactic grid (Talairach and Tournoux, 1988). Electrode locations were measured on X-ray images obtained in the stereotactic frame. The depth of penetration of each contact was measured on the frontal X-ray image from the tip of the electrode to the midline, which was visualized angiographically by the sagittal sinus. The co-registration of the lateral X-ray image and a midsagittal MRI scan, both having the same scale of 1, gave the electrode coordinates in the individual Talaraich space defined by the median sagittal plane, the anterior commissureposterior commissure(ACPC) horizontal plane and the vertical AC frontal plane, these anatomical landmarks being identified on the three-dimensional MRI scans. Eventually, this procedure led to the superimposition of each electrode contact onto the patients' structural MRIs.The accuracy of the registration procedure was 2 mm, estimated on another patient's MR images obtained just after electrode explantation and in which electrode tracks were still visible. In order to pool results across subjects, these coordinates were normalized and projected onto the Talairach and Tournoux stereotactic atlas (Talairach and Tournoux, 1988
). The analysis was restricted to the electrodes located within the visual extrastriate cortex but outside the epileptic focus. In particular, electrodes located in the anterior medial temporal structures and the hippocampus as well as electrodes located within lesions were excluded from the analysis.
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Patients were presented with two tasks in a blocked design (Fig. 1). In the first task (attend condition), they had to remember the first stimulus presented to decide whether it was identical or not to the second one. In the second task (unattend condition), they ignored the first stimulus but monitored a change in the color of the fixation point that could only occur at the end of the delay. Subjects were reminded at the beginning of each block of recordings which of the two tasks they were going to perform. Stimuli were smooth black shapes presented against a gray background. One trial consisted in a red fixation cross for 800 ms, first stimulus for 400 ms, delay for 800, 1200 or 1600 ms, and either second stimulus (attend condition) or red fixation cross (control condition) for 400 ms. Intertrial interval was randomized between 2500 and 3500 ms. Two or three 8 min blocks of 80 stimuli were recorded in each condition in each patient. Performance was monitored online and the difficulty of the task (difference between the two shapes or luminance decrement of the fixation cross) modified to keep the subject's performance 8090% correct. The paradigm has already been presented in detail elsewhere (Tallon-Baudry et al., 1998, 2001
). In accordance with the online adaptation of task difficulty, all subjects performed both tasks 8090% correct. Subjects performed slightly better but more slowly in the control than in the attend condition [mean performance: 84.8 ± 0.7% (control), 81.8 ± 1.2% (attend), paired t-test P < 0.02; mean reaction times from second stimulus onset: 1391 ± 10 ms (control), 1344 ± 15 ms (attend), paired t-test P < 0.03]. The video-display refresh rate was 60 or 100 Hz. Continuous data were acquired at a sampling rate of 1000 Hz with a 0.1200 Hz bandwidth with a Neuroscan system. A vertical electro-oculogram was recorded to monitor eye blinks and eye movements. The ground electrode could be either a contact in the bone or a scalp electrode placed on the forehead. The reference electrode was usually a contact in the skull. In some patients a deep electrode was used as a reference for recordings and the data were re-referenced offline prior to data analysis using a contact in the bone.
Data Analysis
Raw data were visually inspected and any trial containing an artefact (mainly eye blinks detected in the electro-oculogram) discarded, leaving on average respectively 122 correct trials in the attend condition (range 86169) and 117 correct trials in the control condition (range 88158). There were not enough error trials to analyze these.
For each single trial, data were analyzed in the timefrequency domain by convolution with complex gaussian Morlet's wavelets with a ratio f/f of 7, with f the central frequency of the wavelet and
f its standard deviation in frequency, the frequency ranging from 6 to 150 Hz in 2 Hz steps (Tallon-Baudry and Bertrand, 1999
). This leads at 30 Hz to a wavelet with a
f of 4.28 Hz and a
t of 37.2 ms. At each time t and frequency f the result of the convolution for trial j is a complex number:
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To quantify independently the attentional modulation of the baseline and of the sensory response, we worked directly on the mean value p of power in the 30130 Hz frequency band. Statistical significance of attentional modulations were tested using randomization procedures on a subject-by-subject basis. These procedures have the great advantage that they can be applied to data of unknown distribution. Randomization procedures test whether a difference between two datasets (here attend and unattend) is or is not likely to have arisen by chance. The comparison between two groups involves randomly swapping data between groups and computing the difference for these resampled data. This procedure is repeated 1000 times per subject. If the original difference is larger than any of the 1000 differences obtained from the resampled data, then the original difference can be considered as significant with a P-value <0.001. The generalized Monte-Carlo test we used is fully described in Manly (1991). For comparison purposes, the same analysis has been replicated on the mean value p of power between 8 and 12 Hz (alpha range) and between 15 and 20 Hz (beta band) [The beta band has been shown previously (Tallon-Baudry et al., 1998
, 2001
) to be reactive during the delay in the same paradigm].
Attentional modulations of the evoked potentials were analyzed in 50 ms time-window centered around the main peaks (see Results) on a subject-by-subject basis. The mean potential value in the 50 ms time-window (corrected by the mean amplitude in the 400 to 50 ms baseline) was measured for each single trial, in both conditions. For each subject, the attend and unattend conditions were compared using the MannWhitney U-test for unmatched samples.
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Results |
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Large gamma oscillations could be observed at some recording sites on raw data during stimulus presentation (Fig. 2). These oscillations rose sharply between 100 and 150 ms, and were present during the whole stimulus presentation. Their latency varied from one trial to the other. Hence they tended to cancel out on the averaged evoked potential. To quantify these induced oscillations, timefrequency plots averaged across trials were computed for each recording site in the attend condition. The amplitude of the gamma response was defined as the mean between 50 and 400 ms and 30 and 130 Hz of the Z-transformed power. As a first approach, this amplitude was plotted at each implanted site in the Talairach normalized brain (291 contacts across 14 patients, Fig. 3a). Among the regions sampled, two regions consistently displayed a large gamma response. One region was located in the LO sulcus and the other in the fusiform gyrus (Fig. 3b). The only contact located in the vicinity of the calcarine sulcus (red arrow in Fig. 3b) also showed a gamma response (Fig. 4).
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Gamma oscillations were confined within these structures: contacts located a few millimeters away did not show any oscillatory response. Figure 5 illustrates the spatial distribution of gamma oscillations along four electrode tracks recorded in a single patient. The lateral extent of the gamma response is small, in the range of 5 mm. None of the other implanted regions showed large gamma oscillations during stimulus encoding (Fig. 3a,b) according to the criterion defined above, except for the single electrode contact located in the posterior part of the calcarine sulcus (Fig. 4).
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Oscillations rose between 100 and 160 ms at all sites, with a latency at half height of 138.0 ± 10.2 ms (mean ± SEM) in LO and 117.6 ± 15.7 ms in the fusiform gyrus. Across all patients, the difference in latency between the two regions was not significant (MannWhitney U-test, P = 0.54). Two patients were simultaneously implanted in LO and the fusiform gyrus. These two patients showed opposite trends, one showing a shorter latency in LO and the other a shorter latency in the fusiform gyrus. The latency difference between LO and the fusiform gyrus remained small in these two patients (22 ms in one patient, 45 in the other). There was thus no evidence for one site responding systematically before the other, either in the two cases of simultaneous recordings in LO and the fusiform gyrus or across the group of patients.
The peaking frequency of gamma oscillations varied a lot from one patient to the other and one site to the other, ranging from 32 up to 120 Hz. The frequencies in LO and the fusiform gyrus were markedly different in the same patient (Fig. 3c,d) in the two cases of simultaneous implantation. However, there did not seem to be any systematic difference in frequency between LO and the fusiform gyrus: one patient showed a higher frequency in LO than in the fusiform gyrus, the other a lower frequency in LO than in the fusiform gyrus. Across all patients, there was no significant difference in frequency between LO (84.5 ± 14.7 Hz, mean ± SEM) and the fusiform gyrus (62.5 ± 7.9 Hz) (MannWhitney U-test, P = 0.54).
Attentional Modulation of Gamma Oscillations
Since attention could modulate independently the amplitude of gamma oscillations both before and after stimulus onset, attentional modulations were analyzed directly on power measure rather than on Z-scores. The power of gamma oscillations in the 30130 Hz range was compared in the attend and unattend conditions in the two regions of interest, LO and the fusiform gyrus. Two time-windows were defined, one during the baseline (400 to 50 ms, before stimulus onset), when the subject prepared to attend, and one during stimulus presentation (50400 ms after stimulus onset), when the subject processed the stimulus. Differences in gamma power between the attend and unattend conditions were tested on a subject-by-subject basis using Monte-Carlo randomization procedures.
During baseline, attention did not modify the amplitude of gamma oscillations in the fusiform gyrus (P > 0.15 at each of the five recording sites) but increased significantly the baseline gamma power in LO (P < 0.03 at each of the four recording sites). During stimulus encoding, attention increased the gamma response in the fusiform gyrus (P < 0.03 in the five patients) but decreased the gamma response in LO (P < 0.02 at the four sites). Attentional modulations of gamma power are summarized in Figure 6: in the fusiform region, attention did not modify the baseline level of gamma oscillations but increased the oscillatory response to the stimulus. In LO, the baseline level of gamma oscillations was enhanced by attention, but the following oscillatory response to the stimulus was reduced. These amplitude modulations were not accompanied by a modification of the peaking frequency of the oscillations (Wilcoxon test for matched pairs, P = 0.55), or by a change in the latency of the stimulus-induced oscillations (latency at half width, Wilcoxon test for matched pairs, P = 0.28).
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One electrode contact was located in the posterior part of the calcarine sulcus (Fig. 3b, arrow) and showed large gamma oscillations in response to the stimulus onset. At this site, attentional modulations were qualitatively similar to those observed in the fusiform gyrus: the baseline level of gamma oscillations was not modulated by attention (P = 0.3), and there was a trend for the stimulus-induced oscillatory response to be enhanced (P = 0.07).
Evoked Potentials in LO and the Fusiform Gyrus
In LO, evoked potentials with large peaks could be identified in two out of four patients. They were similar to the evoked potentials described in the literature (Allison et al., 1999; Huettel et al., 2004
), with a first deflection around 140 ms, a second one around 200 ms and a third one at 290 ms. In the two other patients evoked potentials were small and did not show any prominent deflections. Figure 7a illustrates the worst (top) and best (bottom) evoked responses recorded in LO. To quantify attentional modulations in each patient, the amplitude of the response was averaged in a 50 ms window centered around 290 ms on each single trial, in the attend and unattend condition. In three out of four patients, the amplitude of the evoked response around 290 ms was modulated by attention, with more positive values in the attend condition (MannWhitney U-test on single trials, P < 0.03 in three patients, P = 0.23 in the remaining patient).
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Gamma Oscillations and Evoked Potentials
Oscillatory induced gamma responses and evoked potentials were not systematically co-localized. Large evoked potentials could be observed outside LO and the fusiform gyrus at various extrastriate recording sites not displaying any gamma activity. Conversely, evoked potentials were not always present in LO and the fusiform gyrus, where large gamma oscillations were observed. Figure 8 shows an example of a recording site in LO showing a large oscillatory-induced response but barely an evoked response, and an example in the lingual gyrus where a large evoked potential could be recorded without concomitant gamma oscillations. Across all sites defined as responsive in the gamma range, the correlation between the evoked potential (mean area under the curve) and the induced gamma response (mean Z score) between 50 and 400 ms is low and not significant (Spearmann correlation coefficient = 0.144; P = 0.5765).
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Discussion |
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The two active regions (LO sulcus and fusiform gyrus) were anatomically well localized. All contacts in the posterior fusiform gyrus displayed large oscillations, while the power of these oscillations dropped close to zero as soon as the contacts were localized either more laterally or just above the fusiform gyrus. The LO region is more complex anatomically (Duvernoy, 1999). In some patients the LO sulcus itself could be identified without any doubt, in others the responsive contacts could be rather located in the transverse occipital sulcus. In any case the lateral extent of the gamma responsive region was again confined to a few contacts.
Although the electrode distribution covers pretty well the posterior ventral visual pathway, it cannot be excluded that an active region has not been investigated. For instance, only one electrode track explores the calcarine sulcus. It is all the more possible that an active region has not been sampled since the spatial extent of gamma oscillations is small, of the order of 5 mm. However, it is interesting to note that the two regions we identified on the basis of the strength of their gamma oscillatory response have repeatedly been reported as activated in object perception tasks in fMRI experiments. The lateral occipital complex is a region that was originally functionally defined as responding more to objects than to their scrambled counterpart (Malach et al., 1995; Grill-Spector et al., 1998b
). It was also shown to be strongly involved in object shape analysis (Grill-Spector et al., 1998a
; Kourtzi and Kanwisher, 2001
). This vast complex was subdivided in a dorsal region referred to as LO and a more anterior and ventral region in the posterior fusiform gyrus called pFs (Grill-Spector et al., 1999
; Malach et al., 2002
). The anatomical localization of the two foci showing large gamma oscillations during stimulus presentation fits quite well with LO and pFs as defined by fMRI experiments. The differences in frequency and the different effects of attention in LO and the fusiform gyrus further support the idea that they are two functionally distinct regions (Grill-Spector et al., 1999
; Malach et al., 2002
).
Stimulus-induced gamma oscillations (appearing with a jitter in latency from one trial to the other) and stimulus-locked evoked potentials (appearing with a fixed delay after stimulus onset) were not systematically colocalized: large oscillatory responses could be observed in the absence of evoked potentials and vice versa. The observation of gamma oscillations without concomitant evoked potentials points to the relevance of both types of activity when deciding whether or not an area is functional prior to a surgical ablation in clinical practice. It also suggests that gamma oscillations are worth taking into account when attempting to combine electrophysiological and fMRI data. Indeed, the spatial correlation between evoked potentials and BOLD responses has been found to be weak, especially in the fusiform region (Huettel et al., 2004), while the BOLD signal seems to correlate well with the plateau of 40130 Hz oscillations in local field potentials in monkeys (Logothetis et al., 2001
; Logothetis, 2003
).
The gamma responses in LO and the fusiform gyrus were modulated by attention. Oscillatory synchrony has been proposed to be a mechanism of attentional selection (Fries et al., 2001b, 2002
), the rationale being that coincident spikes are more likely to be efficient on subsequent processing stages. The increase of gamma oscillations by attention we observe in the fusiform gyrus fits well with this interpretation. It is also in keeping with fMRI studies showing that attention enhances activity in this region (Wojciulik et al., 1998
; Vuilleumier et al., 2001
; Pessoa et al., 2002
). Whether the enhancement of the sensory gamma response we observe in the posterior fusiform region relates to the enhancement of gamma activity by spatially selective attention described in monkey area V4 (Fries et al., 2001b
) is not clear, and the homology between human LO / pFs and monkey areas V4 / TEO remains a matter of intense debate (Tootell and Hadjikhani, 2001
; Zeki, 2003
; Denys et al., 2004
).
In LO, the pattern of attentional modulation was very different and more complex than in the fusiform region. Because of these differences between LO and the fusiform gyrus, it seems unlikely that our results can be explained either by a global effect of the medical treatment some of the patients received or by a global state change between conditions. In LO, attention increased the baseline level of gamma oscillations: when preparing to attend the shape, LO was more synchronized in the gamma range. It should be noted that the fixed duration of the baseline probably enhanced attentionally driven anticipatory changes in neural dynamics. So-called baseline-shifts are usually thought to convey an advantage to the attended stimulus this advantage being most often considered to be an increase in the sensory response. This appealing notion is only partly supported by experimental evidence. Some studies indeed reported an increase of the sensory response following baseline enhancement in human area MT (Chawla et al., 1999), V2 and V4 (Kastner et al., 1999
), as well as an increase in baseline gamma activity followed by a large gamma response in monkey area V4 (Fries et al., 2001b
). However, others studies found that an increase of activity during baseline led to either no modification of the sensory response in human area V1 (Kastner et al., 1999
) or even to a decreased response in monkey areas V2 and V4 (Luck et al., 1997
).
In our findings, the increase in gamma oscillations during baseline was followed by a reduced gamma response to the stimulus in the attend condition. How can this reduced response facilitate stimulus processing? A decisive advantage that could be given to the attended stimulus is the speeding of its processing. The increase in pre-stimulus oscillatory synchrony by attention in LO could lead to a better temporal coordination of the first spikes following stimulus onset, thereby increasing the efficacy of neural firing on subsequent processing stages (Fries et al., 2001a). In the attend condition, the temporal coordination of membrane potential fluctuations in LO during the expectation period could enable a brief but efficient burst of spikes in response to the stimulus. Processed information would then quickly be transmitted to other areas such as the fusiform region in which the processing of the attended shape is large and sustained when paying attention to the stimulus. The hypothesis that the strength of oscillatory synchrony in LO influences the latency of the spiking output thus cannot be readily tested in the experiment presented here, because the electrodes we used record local field potentials, considered to reflect mainly intracortical processing, but not the spiking activity related to the output of the structure (Logothetis, 1998
).
In the unattend condition, the stimulus is irrelevant but produces large gamma oscillations in LO. It should be noted that the perceptual load of the task in the unattend condition (detection of a luminance change of the fixation cross at the end of the delay) is low at the time of stimulus onset. As postulated by Lavie (1995) and shown by Rees et al. (1997)
, irrelevant stimuli are automatically processed when the concurrent task does not exhaust perceptual capacities. It could thus be that in the unattend condition the irrelevant stimulus is fully processed in LO, yielding large gamma oscillations, but that information is not transmitted to the fusiform gyrus which remains silent in the unattend condition.
Our results demonstrate the existence of a functional dissociation between gamma oscillations occurring simultaneously in two distinct extrastriate regions. Gamma oscillations were observed to occur at markedly different frequencies in LO and the fusiform gyrus during stimulus encoding (Fig. 3c,d). A similar difference in the central frequency of stimulus-related oscillatory activity was already reported from the anesthetized monkey areas V1 and V4 (Rols et al., 2001). This could suggest that oscillations during stimulus encoding reflect local, within-area processing rather than a synchronized assembly distributed over distinct functional areas. The different attentional modulation of gamma oscillations in LO and the fusiform gyrus supports the idea that gamma oscillatory synchrony could play a different role depending on the functional specificity of the area in which the oscillations occur. Self-generated preparatory attention influenced the baseline level of gamma oscillations in LO, while stimulus-driven oscillations were modulated by attention in opposite directions in LO and the fusiform gyrus. Attention thus seems to influence neural synchrony differently at different levels of processing. Internally driven and stimulus-driven attention may either interact as in LO, or act separately as in the fusiform gyrus. Attentional mechanisms seem finely tuned both in time, depending on whether the subject prepares to attend or actually pays attention to the stimulus, and in space, depending on the functional specificity of the area considered. Our study thus reveals a pattern of attentional modulations more complex than originally thought. However, this complexity potentially enhances the capacity of the system by increasing its flexibility and thereby its ability to provide an adapted response in different attentional conditions.
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