Beyond establishing involvement: quantifying the contribution of anticipatory alpha- and beta-band suppression to perceptual improvement with attention
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2016Archive
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behavioral relevance; somatosensory perception; Psychological Phenomena and Processes; Psychophysiology; Arousal; Attention; Investigative Techniques; Magnetometry; Magnetoencephalography; attentional orienting; neuronal oscillations; magnetoencephalographyAbstract
Systems and cognitive neuroscience aim at understanding the neurophysiological mechanisms that underlie cognition and behavior. Many studies have revealed the involvement of many types of neural signals in diverse cognitive and behavioral phenomena. Here, we go beyond establishing such involvement and address two fundamental, yet largely unaddressed, questions: 1) exactly how much does a given neural signal contribute to a cognitive or behavioral phenomenon of interest; and 2) to what extent are distinct neural signals independently related to this phenomenon? We recorded brain activity using magnetoencephalography while human participants performed a cued somatosensory detection task. Using a novel method, we then quantified the contribution (in a predictive but not causal sense) of two well-established neural phenomena to the improvement in perception with attentional orienting. In our sample, the anticipatory suppression of extracranially recorded oscillatory - and -band amplitudes from contralateral primary somatosensory cortex could account for maximally 29
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