EEG: electrode positions & Broadmann atlas

Source: http://www.brainm.com/software/pubs/dg/BA_10-20_ROI_Talairach/nearesteeg.htm

 

 

 

 
AreaLEFTRIGHT
ba01C3C4
ba02C3C4
ba03C3C4
ba04C3C4
ba05C1CP2
ba06FC3FC4
ba07P1P2
ba08F1F2
ba09AF3AF4
ba10FP1FP2
ba11AF7FPz
ba17O1O2
ba18O1O2
ba19PO7PO4
ba20FT9FT10
 
AreaLEFTRIGHT
ba21T7T8
ba22T7T8
ba23PzPz
ba24F1F2
ba31PzPz
ba32F1AFz
ba37P7P8
ba38FT9FT10
ba39P5P6
ba40CP3CP4
ba41C5T8
ba42T7C6
BROCA/44RF5FC6
ba45 F8
ba46AF7F6
ba47F7F8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


* limited to SKIL Brodmann montage areas

 

- Closest Brodmann area to each 10-10 electrode 

 

 

 
ELECTRODESITE
FP1ba10L
FPzba10L
FP2ba10R
AF7ba46L
AF3ba09L
AFzba09L
AF4ba09R
AF8ba46R
F7ba47L
F5ba46L
F3ba08L
F1ba08L
Fzba08L
F2ba08R
F4ba08R
F6ba46R
F8ba45R
FT9ba20L
FT7ba47L
FC5BROCLA
FC3ba06L
FC1ba06L
 
ELECTRODESITE
FCzba06R
FC2ba06R
FC4ba06R
FC6ba44R
FT8ba47R
FT10ba20R
T7ba42L
C5ba42L
C3ba02L
C1ba05L
Czba05L
C2ba05R
C4ba01R
C6ba41R
T8ba21R
TP7ba21L
CP5ba40L
CP3ba02L
CP1ba05L
CPzba05R
CP2ba05R
 
ELECTRODESITE
CP4ba40R
CP6ba40R
TP8ba21R
P9ba20L
P7ba37L
P5ba39L
P3ba39L
P1ba07L
Pzba07R
P2ba07R
P4ba39R
P6ba39R
P8ba37R
P10ba37R
PO7ba19L
PO3ba19L
POzba17L
PO4ba19R
PO8ba19R
O1ba18L
Ozba17R
O2ba18R

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* limited to SKIL Brodmann montage areas

 

- The anatomical gyral names of the various Brodmann areas

Recall that there is a Brodmann area in both left and right hemisphere, the homologues.

 

 

Gyrus (Functional name)

1-3 – intermediate, caudal, and rostral postcentral (Primary Somatosensory Cortex) 
4 - gigantopyramidal (Primary Motor Cortex) 
5 - preparietal (Somatosensory Association Cortex) 
6 - agranular frontal (Premotor cortex and Supplementary Motor Cortex) 
7 - superior parietal (Somatosensory Association Cortex) 
8 - intermediate frontal (includes Frontal eye fields) 
9 - granular frontal (Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, DLFC)
10 - frontopolar (DLFC) 
11 - prefrontal (Orbitofrontal) 
12 - prefrontal (Orbitofrontal) 
17 - striate (Primary visual cortex, V1) 
18 - parastriate (Secondary visual cortex, V2) 
19 - peristriate (Tertiary or Associative visual cortex, V3) 
20 - inferior temporal 
21 - middle temporal 
22 - superior temporal (caudal section considered Wernicke's area by most) 
23 - ventral posterior cingulate 
24 - ventral anterior cingulate 
31 - dorsal posterior cingulate 
32 - dorsal anterior cingulate 
37 - occipitotemporal 
38 - temporopolar (temporal pole) 
39 – angular 
40 - supramarginal 
41-42 – ant. & posterior transverse temporal 
44 - opercular (part of Broca's area on left hemisphere) 
45 - triangular (part of Broca's area on left hemisphere) 
46 - middle frontal 
47 - orbital

- EXCLUDED FROM SKIL BRODMANN MONTAGE due to small size and distance from scalp 
13 - insular 
25 - subgenual 
26 - ectosplenial 
28 - entorhinal 
29 - granular retrolimbic 
30 - agranular retrolimbic 
33 - pregenual 
34 - dorsal entorhinal 
35 - perirhinal 
36 - ectorhinal 
43 - subcentral 
48 - retrosubicular 
52 - parainsular

14, 15, 16, 27, 49, 50, 51 - monkey only Distance in mm. If you have a finding at an electrode, this table tells you which BA is closest

 

- 2nd table: If you have a BA you want to change, here is the electrode which is closest, distance in mm.

FP110L,9L,46L,11L,32L
FPz10L,10R,9L,9R,11R
FP210R,9R,46R,11R,45R
AF746L,10L,45L,9L,11L
AF39L,46L,8L,10L,45L
AFz9L,9R,32R,32L,8L
AF49R,46R,8R,10R,45R
AF846R,10R,45R,9R,47R
F745L,47L,46L,44L,38L
F545L,46L,44L,47L,9L
F38L,6L,44L,45L,46L
F18L,6L,9L,32L,24L
Fz8L,8R,32L,24L,6R
F28R,6R,9R,32R,24R
F48R,9R,6R,44R,46R
F646R,44R,45R,9R,8R
F845R,47R,46R,44R,38R
FT938L,20L,21L,47L,22L
FT744L,47L,22L,38L,21L
FC544L,45L,22L,42L,41L
FC36L,4L,3L,44L,2L
FC16L,4L,5L,1L,2L
FCz6R,5L,6L,4L,5R
FC26R,4R,8R,2R,1R
FC46R,4R,44R,3R,2R
FC644R,45R,41R,22R,42R
FT847R,38R,44R,21R,22R
FT1038R,20R,21R,47R,22R
T721L,42L,22L,41L,20L
C542L,41L,22L,40L,3L
C32L,4L,1L,3L,40L
C15L,2L,4L,1L,6L
Cz5L,5R,1R,1L,4L
C25R,1R,2R,4R,6R
C44R,2R,1R,3R,40R
C642R,41R,22R,3R,40R
T821R,22R,41R,42R,20R
TP721L,42L,22L,37L,41L
CP540L,39L,41L,42L,22L
CP340L,2L,1L,7L,3L
CP15L,7L,2L,1L,31L
CPz5L,5R,7R,7L,31L
CP25R,7R,1R,2R,40R
CP440R,1R,2R,5R,3R
CP640R,42R,39R,22R,41R
TP837R,21R,22R,42R,20R
P920L,37L,21L,22L,42L
P737L,39L,19L,21L,41L
P539L,19L,37L,40L,41L
P339L,7L,19L,40L,2L
P17L,31L,5L,7R,39L
Pz7R,7L,31R,31L,5R
P27R,31R,5R,19R,39R
P439R,40R,7R,19R,1R
P639R,19R,37R,40R,42R
P837R,39R,19R,42R,22R
P1020R,37R,21R,22R,41R
PO719L,18L,37L,39L,17L
PO319L,39L,18L,17L,7L
POz17R,17L,18R,18L,7R
PO419R,39R,18R,17R,7R
PO819R,18R,39R,37R,17R
O118L,17L,19L,17R,39L
Oz17R,17L,18L,18R,19R
O218R,17R,19R,17L,39R
1LC3,C1,CP3,CP1,FC3
2LC3,CP3,C1,CP1,FC3
3LC3,C5,CP3,FC3,FC5
4LC3,FC3,C1,FC1,CP3
5LC1,CP1,CPz,Cz,C3
6LFC3,FC1,F3,F1,C3
7LP1,CP1,P3,Pz,CP3
8LF1,F3,AF3,Fz,AFz
9LAF3,AFz,FP1,AF7,F3
10LFP1,AF7,FPz,AF3,AFz
11LAF7,F7,FP1,FPz,AF3
17LOz,O1,POz,PO3,PO7
18LO1,Oz,PO7,PO3,POz
19LPO7,PO3,P5,O1,P7
20LFT9,T7,P9,TP7,FT7
21LT7,TP7,FT7,C5,CP5
22LT7,C5,TP7,FT7,CP5
23LPz,P1,CP1,POz,P3
24LF1,Fz,F3,AFz,F2
31LPz,CP1,P1,CPz,CP3
32LAFz,F1,Fz,AF3,F3
37LP7,TP7,PO7,P5,P9
38LFT9,FT7,F7,T7,F5
39LP5,CP5,P3,P7,PO3
40LCP3,CP5,C3,C5,P3
41LC5,CP5,T7,TP7,FC5
42LT7,C5,TP7,CP5,FT7
44LFC5,F5,FT7,F7,F3
45LF5,F7,AF7,FC5,FT7
46LAF7,F5,F7,AF3,F3
47LF7,FT7,AF7,F5,FT9
1RC4,C2,CP4,CP2,FC2
2RC4,C2,CP4,CP2,FC4
3RC4,C6,CP4,FC4,CP6
4RC4,FC4,C2,FC2,C6
5RCP2,C2,CP4,CPz,C4
6RFC2,FC4,F2,F4,C4
7RP2,Pz,CP2,P4,CPz
8RF2,F4,AF4,Fz,F6
9RAF4,AFz,F4,FP2,AF8
10RFP2,AF8,FPz,AF4,F8
11RFPz,FP2,AF8,F8,FP1
17ROz,O2,POz,PO4,PO8
18RO2,Oz,PO8,PO4,POz
19RPO4,PO8,P6,O2,P4
20RT8,FT10,TP8,P10,FT8
21RT8,TP8,FT8,FT10,C6
22RT8,C6,TP8,CP6,FT8
23RPz,P2,POz,CP2,P1
24RF2,Fz,F4,AFz,F1
31RPz,P2,CP2,POz,CPz
32RAFz,F2,Fz,AF4,FPz
37RP8,TP8,PO8,P6,P10
38RFT10,FT8,F8,T8,F6
39RP6,PO4,P4,P8,PO8
40RCP4,CP6,C4,P4,C6
41RT8,C6,CP6,TP8,FT8
42RC6,CP6,T8,TP8,FC6
44RFC6,F6,F8,FC4,FT8
45RF8,F6,AF8,FT8,AF4
46RF6,AF8,F8,AF4,F4
47RF8,FT8,AF8,FT10,F6
FP1ba10L14ba09L28ba46L37ba11L38ba32L47
FPzba10L25ba10R27ba09L34ba09R36ba11R38
FP2ba10R16ba09R29ba46R35ba11R39ba45R43
AF7ba46L16ba10L22ba45L28ba09L29ba11L32
AF3ba09L15ba46L23ba08L25ba10L30ba45L32
AFzba09L26ba09R27ba32R33ba32L33ba08L34
AF4ba09R14ba46R21ba08R27ba10R29ba45R32
AF8ba46R18ba10R20ba45R26ba09R29ba47R35
F7ba45L13ba47L15ba46L17ba44L27ba38L32
F5ba45L13ba46L17ba44L19ba47L33ba09L36
F3ba08L21ba06L26ba44L30ba45L31ba46L32
F1ba08L13ba06L28ba09L32ba32L36ba24L36
Fzba08L27ba08R32ba32L37ba24L38ba06R38
F2ba08R16ba06R27ba09R31ba32R38ba24R39
F4ba08R18ba09R28ba06R28ba44R28ba46R28
F6ba46R16ba44R19ba45R19ba09R32ba08R32
F8ba45R14ba47R16ba46R19ba44R27ba38R30
FT9ba38L22ba20L26ba21L35ba47L37ba22L41
FT7ba44L26ba47L29ba22L29ba38L29ba21L30
FC5ba44L13ba45L29ba22L34ba42L34ba41L34
FC3ba06L19ba04L21ba03L31ba44L31ba02L34
FC1ba06L24ba04L24ba05L34ba01L35ba02L36
FCzba06R37ba05L41ba06L42ba04L44ba05R44
FC2ba06R20ba04R29ba08R36ba02R36ba01R37
FC4ba06R21ba04R21ba44R28ba03R33ba02R34
FC6ba44R12ba45R33ba41R33ba22R34ba42R34
FT8ba47R25ba38R27ba44R28ba21R28ba22R31
FT10ba38R24ba20R27ba21R30ba47R36ba22R43
T7ba21L14ba42L15ba22L16ba41L25ba20L27
C5ba42L19ba41L20ba22L22ba40L25ba03L27
C3ba02L16ba04L17ba01L20ba03L21ba40L25
C1ba05L16ba02L23ba04L23ba01L23ba06L37
Czba05L29ba05R32ba01R43ba01L44ba04L45
C2ba05R18ba01R23ba02R25ba04R28ba06R34
C4ba04R17ba02R19ba01R22ba03R22ba40R26
C6ba42R19ba41R22ba22R23ba03R28ba40R29
T8ba21R13ba22R18ba41R21ba42R23ba20R26
TP7ba21L20ba42L23ba22L25ba37L25ba41L28
CP5ba40L20ba39L21ba41L23ba42L25ba22L29
CP3ba40L19ba02L20ba01L24ba07L28ba03L30
CP1ba05L19ba07L20ba02L26ba01L28ba31L37
CPzba05L29ba05R30ba07R31ba07L34ba31L39
CP2ba05R15ba07R23ba01R26ba02R30ba40R38
CP4ba40R15ba01R25ba02R25ba05R29ba03R30
CP6ba40R20ba42R22ba39R28ba22R28ba41R29
TP8ba37R22ba21R24ba22R27ba42R27ba20R28
P9ba20L29ba37L35ba21L42ba22L52ba42L53
P7ba37L17ba39L24ba19L27ba21L39ba41L40
P5ba39L9ba19L21ba37L29ba40L34ba41L40
P3ba39L23ba07L24ba19L31ba40L33ba02L39
P1ba07L15ba31L38ba05L40ba07R41ba39L41
Pzba07R21ba07L26ba31R33ba31L36ba05R41
P2ba07R15ba31R35ba05R36ba19R38ba39R39
P4ba39R22ba40R28ba07R29ba19R30ba01R39
P6ba39R10ba19R24ba37R29ba40R32ba42R39
P8ba37R16ba39R24ba19R31ba42R40ba22R42
P10ba20R32ba37R32ba21R42ba22R54ba41R56
PO7ba19L18ba18L25ba37L26ba39L29ba17L35
PO3ba19L19ba39L28ba18L28ba17L31ba07L37
POzba17R30ba17L30ba18R36ba18L36ba07R37
PO4ba19R15ba39R20ba18R28ba17R33ba07R37
PO8ba19R22ba18R24ba39R26ba37R27ba17R34
O1ba18L12ba17L15ba19L23ba17R37ba39L41
Ozba17R12ba17L13ba18L24ba18R24ba19R40
O2ba18R12ba17R15ba19R26ba17L36ba39R38

 


ba01LC320C123CP324CP128FC334
ba02LC316CP320C123CP126FC334
ba03LC321C527CP330FC331FC534
ba04LC317FC321C123FC124CP336
ba05LC116CP119CPz29Cz29C332
ba06LFC319FC124F326F128C332
ba07LP115CP120P324Pz26CP328
ba08LF113F321AF325Fz27AFz34
ba09LAF315AFz26FP128AF729F332
ba10LFP114AF722FPz25AF330AFz39
ba11LAF732F734FP138FPz46AF349
ba17LOz13O115POz30PO331PO735
ba18LO112Oz24PO725PO328POz36
ba19LPO718PO319P521O123P727
ba20LFT926T727P929TP730FT737
ba21LT714TP720FT730C532CP534
ba22LT716C522TP725FT729CP529
ba23LPz43P145CP147POz47P349
ba24LF136Fz38F341AFz44F244
ba31LPz36CP137P138CPz39CP344
ba32LAFz33F136Fz37AF338F341
ba37LP717TP725PO726P529P935
ba38LFT922FT729F732T745F550
ba39LP59CP521P323P724PO328
ba40LCP319CP520C325C525P333
ba41LC520CP523T725TP728FC534
ba42LT715C519TP723CP525FT731
ba44LFC513F519FT726F727F330
ba45LF513F713AF728FC529FT731
ba46LAF716F517F717AF323F332
ba47LF715FT729AF732F533FT937
ba01RC422C223CP425CP226FC237
ba02RC419C225CP425CP230FC434
ba03RC422C628CP430FC433CP634
ba04RC417FC421C228FC229C635
ba05RCP215C218CP429CPz30C432
ba06RFC220FC421F227F428C433
ba07RP215Pz21CP223P429CPz31
ba08RF216F418AF427Fz32F632
ba09RAF414AFz27F428FP229AF829
ba10RFP216AF820FPz27AF429F838
ba11RFPz38FP239AF841F846FP151
ba17ROz12O215POz30PO433PO834
ba18RO212Oz24PO824PO428POz36
ba19RPO415PO822P624O226P430
ba20RT826FT1027TP828P1032FT838
ba21RT813TP824FT828FT1030C636
ba22RT818C623TP827CP628FT831
ba23RPz45P247POz47CP249P150
ba24RF239Fz39F443AFz43F144
ba31RPz33P235CP239POz40CPz41
ba32RAFz33F238Fz39AF440FPz41
ba37RP816TP822PO827P629P1032
ba38RFT1024FT827F830T844F649
ba39RP610PO420P422P824PO826
ba40RCP415CP620C426P428C629
ba41RT821C622CP629TP830FT831
ba42RC619CP622T823TP827FC634
ba44RFC612F619F827FC428FT828
ba45RF814F619AF826FT832AF432
ba46RF616AF818F819AF421F428
ba47RF816FT825AF835FT1036F636

left ba01=right thumb activity (WOEXP: 497)!! left ba02= Active right middle finger movement versus rest (WOEXP: 268) left ba03=imitating symbolic finger movements (WOEXP: 145) left ba04= left ba05= left ba06= left ba07= left ba08= Judge basic elements of reading ( Lower/upper case v. syllable WOEXP: 553) left ba09= left ba10= left ba11= left ba17= Visual exploration versus saccades (WOEXP: 6) left ba18= Verbal numerical notation (WOEXP: 23) left ba19=Visual motion (WOEXP: 430)! left ba20=Visual categorization (WOEXP: 4)!! left ba21=Visual meaningfulness (WOEXP: 164) left ba22= left ba23=Answering self-reflective v. semantic questions -w/anterior site (WOEXP: 62) left ba24=part of pain sensitivity network (WOEXP: 238) left ba31= left ba32=Early phase heat pain (WOEXP: 298) left ba37= left ba38= left ba39=Motion verb sentences versus static sentences (WOEXP: 534) ! left ba40= left ba41= left ba42= left ba44= left ba45=Word generation (WOEXP: 32) left ba46= left ba47= right ba01=imperceptible electric finger stimulation (WOEXP: 278) right ba02= right ba03= right ba04= right ba05= right ba06= right ba07=Mental rotation of figures versus object determination or dots counting (WOEXP: 86) right ba08= Sensorimotor willed action (WOEXP: 13) right ba09= right ba10= right ba11= right ba17=Large line patterns (WOEXP: 101) !! right ba18=Verbal numerical notation (WOEXP: 23) ! right ba19= right ba20=Negative interaction between predictable tones and button press (WOEXP: 261) !! right ba21=Spatial neglect (WOEXP: 185) !! right ba22= right ba23=Task-related episodic retrieval versus semantic (WOEXP: 565) right ba24= right ba31=Correlation with pain intensity (WOEXP: 248) !! Decreases in heat pain in left forearm (WOEXP: 363) right ba32= right ba37= right ba38= right ba39=Biological visual motion (WOEXP: 111) ! right ba40= right ba41=Auditory change (WOEXP: 454) ! Chords (WOEXP: 22) !! right ba42= right ba44= sole right side of network involved in Response competition (WOEXP: 134) right ba45= right ba46= Decreases during 100 Hz vibration on left forearm (WOEXP: 365) right ba47= ===== Lloyd table 1.3 >8% normalized only, EEG accessible L 3 13.3 Action.Motor Learning L 4 11.4 Action.Motor Learning L 6 8.6 Cognition.Time L 7 8.3 Action.Motor Learning L 9 8.0 Cognition.Time L 17 12.0 Perception.Vision.Color L 21 12.0 Action.Motor Learning L 37 9.6 Emotion.Anxiety L 47 8.9 Cognition.Time R 1 8.2 Perception.Audition R 6 8.2 Action.Observation R 9 9.6 Action.Motor Learning R 17 8.0 Perception.Vision.Color R 22 8.0 Perception.Olfaction R 24 13.3 Action.Motor Learning R 37 8.6 Perception.Vision.Color R 38 9.4 Interoception.Sexuality R 40 9.2 Action.Motor Learning R 43 17.1 Interoception.Hunger R 47 9.6 Perception.Olfaction cytoarchitecture and neurotransmitter-binding site distributions divide BA 4 into anterior and posterior sites voluntary movements differently modulate the somatosensory functions of SMA and SM1 (Mima et al., 1999)
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- Brodmann's Interactive Atlas
Function: Brodmann's Areas
  
.. Motor 
Primary motor: 4, 1, 2, 3
Secondary motor: 6, 8
Motor planning: 6, 13-16; 24, 32-33; 40
Motor Imagery: 5, 7, 4, 6, 8; 24, 32-33
Motor Learning: 4, 1-3, 6, 8; 23, 26, 29-31
Saccadic movements: 4, 5, 7, 6, 8, 17, 18, 19, 46
Inhibition of blinking: 4
  
.. Sensory
Proprioception: 1-3, 4, 8
Touch, temperature, vibration: 1-3, 4, 5, 7, 13-16
Somatosensory integration: 40

.. Auditory 
Basic processing: 41, 42
Complex sounds processing: 21, 22
Auditory Imagery: 8, 9, 10 
Familiar voices: 38

.. Visual
Light intensity / patterns: 17, 18, 19
Color discrimination: 17
Visual integration: 20
Visual motion processing: 37

.. Olfaction General olfaction: 11 Familiar odors: 9, 10; 24, 32-33; 44, 45, 47
.. Language Comprehension: 22, 20, 21, 37, 39, 40, 5, 7, 6, 9, 10, 23, 26, 29-31, 38, 43, 44, 45,47 Expression: 44, 45, 46, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13-16, 21; 24, 32-33; 47 Prosody comprehension: 22 Reading: 6, 39 Writting: 40 .. Memory Working Memory: 5, 7, 6, 8, 9, 10, 20; 24, 32-33; 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47; (27-28, 34-36, 48) Episodic memory: 6, 44, 45, 47 Retrieval: 8, 9, 10,; 26, 29, 29-31; 24, 32-33; 38, 40 Encoding: (27-28, 34-36, 48); 9, 10; 24, 32-33; 37, 46 Topokinetic: 23, 26, 29-31 .. Attention Visual: 17, 18, 37 Visuomotor: 5, 7, 6, 8 Visuospatial: 6, 8; 39, 24, 32-33; 45 Selective to sounds: 6, 9, 10,; 24, 32-33 To speech: 20, 22,; 23, 26, 29-31; 38, 47
.. Executive Planning: 6, 8, 9, 10 Behavioral inhibition: 6, 8, 9, 10, 13-16; 24, 32-33; 39, 40, 44 , 46, 47 Motor inhibition: 24, 32-33, 44, 45, 47
.. Emotion Experiencing / processing emotion: 38, 46; (27-28, 34-36, 48) Related to language: 23, 26, 29-31; 25 Emotional stimuli: 9, 10; 24, 32-33 Fear response: 13-16
..Pain Pain processing: 13-16; 24, 32-33, 5, 7
.. Others Calculation: 39, 40, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13-16, 46 Theory of mind: 38, 9, 10, 20, 21, 22, 37, 47 Face recognition: 37 Mental time-keeping: 24, 32-33 Sexual arousal: 24, 32-33 Humor comprehension: 38 Music performance: 40 Music enjoyment: 44, 45, 46 Navegational skills: (27-28, 34-36, 48) Novelty discrimination: (27-28, 34-36, 48)

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---WOEXP: 4. ----

Neuropsychologia. 2000;38(13):1693-703.

Categorization and category effects in normal object recognition: a PET study.
Gerlach C, Law I, Gade A, Paulson OB.


To investigate the neural correlates of the structural and semantic stages of visual object recognition and to see whether any effects of category could be found at these stages, we compared the rCBF associated with two categorization tasks (subjects decided whether pictures represented artefacts or natural objects), and two object decision tasks (subjects decided whether pictures represented real objects or nonobjects). The categorization tasks differed from each other in that the items presented in the critical scan window were drawn primarily from the category of artefacts in the one task and from the category of natural objects in the other. The same was true for the object decision tasks. The experiment thus comprised a two-by-two factorial design. The factors were Task Type with two levels (object decision vs. categorization) and Category also with two levels (natural objects vs. artefacts). The object decision tasks were associated with activation of areas involved in structural processing (fusiform gyri, right inferior frontal gyrus). In contrast, the categorization tasks were associated with activation of the left inferior temporal gyrus, a structure believed to be involved in semantic processing. In addition, activation of the left premotor cortex was found during the categorization of artefacts compared with both the categorization of natural objects and object decision to artefacts. These findings suggest that the structural and semantic stages are dissociable and that the categorization of artefacts, as opposed to the categorization of natural objects, is based, in part, on action knowledge mediated by the left premotor cortex. However, because artefacts and natural objects often caused activation in the same regions within tasks, processing of these categories is not totally segregated. Rather, the categories differ in their weight on different forms of knowledge in particular tasks.

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Brain. 1997 Oct;120 ( Pt 10):1763-77.

Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject's strategy.
Decety J, Grèzes J, Costes N, Perani D, Jeannerod M, Procyk E, Grassi F, Fazio F.

Processus mentaux et activation cérébrale, Inserm Unit, Bron, France.

PET was used to map brain regions that are associated with the observation of meaningful and meaningless hand actions. Subjects were scanned under four conditions which consisted of visually presented actions. In each of the four experimental conditions, they were instructed to watch the actions with one of two aims: to be able to recognize or to imitate them later. We found that differences in the meaning of the action, irrespective of the strategy used during observation, lead to different patterns of brain activity and clear left/right asymmetries. Meaningful actions strongly engaged the left hemisphere in frontal and temporal regions while meaningless actions involved mainly the right occipitoparietal pathway. Observing with the intent to recognize activated memory-encoding structures. In contrast, observation with the intent to imitate was associated with activation in the regions involved in the planning and in the generation of actions. Thus, the pattern of brain activation during observation of actions is dependent both on the nature of the required executive processing and the type of the extrinsic properties of the action presented.

Observation of meaningful action in order to recognize versus observation of meaningless action. Observation of hand and arm meaningful action such as "opening a bottle", "drawing a line", "sewing a button" showed on a video for later recognition. WOEXP: 164.  


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Brain. 2002 Aug;125(Pt 8):1808-14.

Neural correlates of self-reflection.
Johnson SC, Baxter LC, Wilder LS, Pipe JG, Heiserman JE, Prigatano GP.

Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, Barrow Neurological Institute, St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 85013, USA. s2johns@chw.edu

The capacity to reflect on one's sense of self is an important component of self-awareness. In this paper, we investigate some of the neurocognitive processes underlying reflection on the self using functional MRI. Eleven healthy volunteers were scanned with echoplanar imaging using the blood oxygen level-dependent contrast method. The task consisted of aurally delivered statements requiring a yes-no decision. In the experimental condition, participants responded to a variety of statements requiring knowledge of and reflection on their own abilities, traits and attitudes (e.g. 'I forget important things', 'I'm a good friend', 'I have a quick temper'). In the control condition, participants responded to statements requiring a basic level of semantic knowledge (e.g. 'Ten seconds is more than a minute', 'You need water to live'). The latter condition was intended to control for auditory comprehension, attentional demands, decision-making, the motoric response, and any common retrieval processes. Individual analyses revealed consistent anterior medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate activation for all participants. The overall activity for the group, using a random-effects model, occurred in anterior medial prefrontal cortex (t = 13.0, corrected P = 0.05; x, y, z, 0, 54, 8, respectively) and the posterior cingulate (t = 14.7, P = 0.02; x, y, z, -2, -62, 32, respectively; 967 voxel extent). These data are consistent with lesion studies of impaired awareness, and suggest that the medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortex are part of a neural system subserving self-reflective thought.


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Anesthesiology. 2000 May;92(5):1257-67.

Neural mechanisms of antinociceptive effects of hypnosis.
Faymonville ME, Laureys S, Degueldre C, DelFiore G, Luxen A, Franck G, Lamy M, Maquet P.

Departments of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and Neurology, and the Cyclotron Research Centre, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium. anesrea@ulg.ac.be

BACKGROUND: The neural mechanisms underlying the modulation of pain perception by hypnosis remain obscure. In this study, we used positron emission tomography in 11 healthy volunteers to identify the brain areas in which hypnosis modulates cerebral responses to a noxious stimulus. METHODS: The protocol used a factorial design with two factors: state (hypnotic state, resting state, mental imagery) and stimulation (warm non-noxious vs. hot noxious stimuli applied to right thenar eminence). Two cerebral blood flow scans were obtained with the 15O-water technique during each condition. After each scan, the subject was asked to rate pain sensation and unpleasantness. Statistical parametric mapping was used to determine the main effects of noxious stimulation and hypnotic state as well as state-by-stimulation interactions (i.e., brain areas that would be more or less activated in hypnosis than in control conditions, under noxious stimulation). RESULTS: Hypnosis decreased both pain sensation and the unpleasantness of noxious stimuli. Noxious stimulation caused an increase in regional cerebral blood flow in the thalamic nuclei and anterior cingulate and insular cortices. The hypnotic state induced a significant activation of a right-sided extrastriate area and the anterior cingulate cortex. The interaction analysis showed that the activity in the anterior (mid-)cingulate cortex was related to pain perception and unpleasantness differently in the hypnotic state than in control situations. CONCLUSIONS: Both intensity and unpleasantness of the noxious stimuli are reduced during the hypnotic state. In addition, hypnotic modulation of pain is mediated by the anterior cingulate cortex.

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Neuroreport. 1997 Jan 20;8(2):561-5.

FMRI of the prefrontal cortex during overt verbal fluency.
Phelps EA, Hyder F, Blamire AM, Shulman RG.

Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

Verbal fluency is known to be associated with activity in the left prefrontal cortex. Recent positron emission tomography (PET) results confirmed this finding. In the present study, high resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to further localize activity in the prefrontal cortex related to verbal fluency. Activation was observed in three behavioral tasks: (1) Repeat-subjects repeated words, (2) Opposite-subjects produced the antonym of words, and (3) Generate-subjects generated words beginning with a given letter. When comparing Generate with both Repeat and Opposite, we observed small areas of activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus and anterior cingulate, similar to the centers of mass reported using PET. We also found additional activation around the superior frontal sulcus.


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Science. 2003 Mar 21;299(5614):1864.

Imperceptible stimuli and sensory processing impediment.
Blankenburg F, Taskin B, Ruben J, Moosmann M, Ritter P, Curio G, Villringer A.

Decrease during imperceptible electric finger stimulation. Left index finger 7Hz electric pulse subliminal stimulation versus no stimulation. WOEXP: 278. 

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Neuroimage. 2001 Jan;13(1):143-52.

Cortical activations during the mental rotation of different visual objects.
Jordan K, Heinze HJ, Lutz K, Kanowski M, Jäncke L.

Institute of General Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, D-39106, Germany.

Whole-head functional magnetic resonance imaging was applied to nine healthy right-handed subjects while they were performing three different mental rotation tasks and two visual control tasks. The mental rotation tasks comprised stimuli pairs derived from the "classical" 3D cube figures first used by R. N. Shepard and J. Metzler (1971, Science 171, 701-703), pairs of letters, and pairs of abstract figures developed by J. Hochberg and L. Gellmann (1977, Memory Cognit. 5, 23-26). In some cases, the paired objects were identical except that they were rotated in a certain plane. In other cases, the two objects were incongruent. Subjects were shown one pair of objects at a time and asked to judge whether the two were the same. In line with previous studies we found that decision times increased linearly with the degree of separation between the two objects. Cortical activation converged to demonstrate bilateral core regions in the superior and inferior parietal lobe (centered on the intraparietal sulcus), which were similarly activated during all three mental rotation tasks. Thus, our results suggest that different kinds of stimuli used for mental rotation tasks did not inevitably evoke activations outside the parietal core regions. For example we did not find any activation in brain areas known to be involved in lexical or verbal processing nor activations in cortical regions known to be involved in object identification or classification.


SPECIFICALLY Mental rotation of figures versus object determination or dots counting. Deciding whether visual stimuli were the same or mirrored indicating by pressing one of two buttons with the index or the middle finger of their right hand. WOEXP: 86. 

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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Jun 24;94(13):6989-94.

"Willed action": a functional MRI study of the human prefrontal cortex during a sensorimotor task.
Hyder F, Phelps EA, Wiggins CJ, Labar KS, Blamire AM, Shulman RG.

Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. hyder@mrcbs.med.yale.edu

Functional MRI (fMRI) was used to examine human brain activity within the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during a sensorimotor task that had been proposed to require selection between several responses, a cognitive concept termed "willed action" in a positron emission tomography (PET) study by Frith et al. [Frith, C. D., Friston, K., Liddle, P. F. & Frackowiak, R. S. J. (1991) Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. B 244, 241-246]. We repeated their sensorimotor task, in which the subject chooses to move either of two fingers after a stimulus, by fMRI experiments in a 2.1-T imaging spectrometer. Echo-planar images were acquired from four coronal slices in the prefrontal cortex from nine healthy subjects. Slices were 5 mm thick, centers separated by 7 mm, with nominal in-plane spatial resolution of 9.6 x 5.0 mm2 for mean data. Our mean results are in agreement with the PET results in that we saw similar bilateral activations. The present results are compared with our previously published fMRI study of a verbal fluency task, which had also been proposed by Frith et al. to elicit a "willed action" response. We find a clear separation of activation foci in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for the sensorimotor (Brodmann area 46) and verbal fluency (Brodmann area 45) tasks. Hence, assigning a particular activated region to "willed action" is not supported by the fMRI data when examined closely because identical regions are not activated with different modalities. Similar modality linked activations can be observed in the original PET study but the greater resolution of the fMRI data makes the modality linkages more definite.



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Egner, T., Hirsch, J. (2005).  Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict
 through cortical amplification of task-relevant information. 
Nature Neuroscience, 8 (12), 1784-1790.


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J Cogn Neurosci. 2000 Sep;12(5):763-74.

Brain activation during mental transformation of size.
Larsen A, Bundesen C, Kyllingsbaek S, Paulson OB, Law I.

Center for Visual Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Visual comparison between different-sized objects with respect to shape can be done by encoding one of the objects as a mental image, transforming the image to the size format of the other object, and then testing for a match (Bundesen, C., & Larsen, A. [1975]. Visual transformation of size. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1, 214-220). To identify the brain structures implicated in mental transformation of size, we measured the distribution of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) by positron emission tomography (PET) in 12 normal subjects who compared random stimulus patterns with respect to shape regardless of variations in size in a one-back match-to-sample paradigm. Each subject was PET-scanned 12 times during repetitive injections of H(2)(15)O. In one condition (three scans), all stimulus patterns were small. In a second condition (three scans), all stimuli were large. In the third condition (six scans), the stimuli alternated between small and large. Mental transformation of size should occur in the alternating-size condition but not in the fixed-size conditions. As expected, behavioral measures (reaction time [RT], d', beta) were nearly the same for the two fixed-size conditions but mean RT was longer and d' smaller in the alternating-size condition. Changes in rCBF specific to mental transformation of size were estimated by contrasting the alternating-size with the fixed-size conditions by use of statistical parametric mapping (SPM96) at a threshold of p <. 05 corrected for multiple comparisons. The detected brain structures implicated in mental transformation of size were primarily located in the dorsal pathways, comprising structures in the occipital, parietal, and temporal transition zone (predominantly in the left hemisphere), posterior parietal cortex (bilaterally), area MT/V5 (left), and vermis (bilaterally). Contrasts between the two fixed-size conditions showed significant effects in only the occipital cortex.

Large line patterns. One-back match-to-sample task with large line patterns versus small line patterns. WOEXP: 101. 

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Negative interaction between predictable tones and button press. Negative interaction between predictable tones and self-paced button presses versus no button presses and random tones with button press. WOEXP: 261. 


Neuropsychologia. 1998 Jun;36(6):521-9.

How do we predict the consequences of our actions? A functional imaging study.
Blakemore SJ, Rees G, Frith CD.

Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, London. s.blakemore@ucl.ac.uk

Humans are readily able to distinguish expected and unexpected sensory events. Whether a single mechanism underlies this ability is unknown. The most common type of expected sensory events are those generated as a consequence of self-generated actions. Using H2 15O PET, we studied brain responses to such predictable sensory events (tones) and to similar unpredictable events and especially how the processing of predictable sensory events is modified by the context of a causative self-generated action. Increases in activity when the tones were unpredictable were seen in the inferior and superior temporal lobe bilaterally, the right parahippocampal gyrus and right parietal cortex. Self-generated actions produced activity in a number of motor and premotor areas, including dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. We observed an interaction between the predictability of stimuli and self-generated actions in several areas, including the medial posterior cingulate cortex, left insula, dorsomedial thalamus, superior colliculus and right inferior temporal cortex. This modulation of activity associated with stimulus predictability in the context of self-generated actions implies that these areas may be involved in self-monitoring processes. Detection of expected stimuli and the detection of the sensory consequences of self-generated actions appear to be functionally distinct processes, and are carried out in different cortical areas. These observations support theoretical approaches to cognition that postulate the existence of a self-monitoring system.


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Nature. 2001 Jun 21;411(6840):950-3.

Spatial awareness is a function of the temporal not the posterior parietal lobe.
Karnath HO, Ferber S, Himmelbach M.

Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Tübingen, Germany. karnath@uni-tuebingen.de

Comment in:

Nature. 2001 Jun 21;411(6840):903-4. 

Our current understanding of spatial behaviour and parietal lobe function is largely based on the belief that spatial neglect in humans (a lack of awareness of space on the side of the body contralateral to a brain injury) is typically associated with lesions of the posterior parietal lobe. However, in monkeys, this disorder is observed after lesions of the superior temporal cortex, a puzzling discrepancy between the species. Here we show that, contrary to the widely accepted view, the superior temporal cortex is the neural substrate of spatial neglect in humans, as it is in monkeys. Unlike the monkey brain, spatial awareness in humans is a function largely confined to the right superior temporal cortex, a location topographically reminiscent of that for language on the left. Hence, the decisive phylogenetic transition from monkey to human brain seems to be a restriction of a formerly bilateral function to the right side, rather than a shift from the temporal to the parietal lobe. One may speculate that this lateralization of spatial awareness parallels the emergence of an elaborate representation for language on the left side.



Patients with spatial neglect and right brain damage from infarct or hemorrhage versus right brain damage patients without spatial neglect. WOEXP: 185. 


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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Feb 16;96(4):1794-9.

Task-related and item-related brain processes of memory retrieval.
Düzel E, Cabeza R, Picton TW, Yonelinas AP, Scheich H, Heinze HJ, Tulving E.

Department of Neurology II, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany. emrah.duezel@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de

In all cognitive tasks, general task-related processes operate throughout a given task on all items, whereas specific item-related processes operate differentially on individual items. In typical functional neuroimaging experiments, these two sets of processes have usually been confounded. Herein we report a combined positron emission tomography and event-related potential (ERP) experiment that was designed to distinguish between neural correlates of task-related and item-related processes of memory retrieval. Two retrieval tasks, episodic and semantic, were crossed with episodic (old/new) and semantic (living/nonliving) properties of individual items to yield evidence of regional brain activity associated with task-related processes, item-related processes, and their interaction. The results showed that episodic retrieval task was associated with increased blood flow in right prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortex, as well as with a sustained right-frontopolar-positive ERP, but that the semantic retrieval task was associated with left frontal and temporal lobe activity. Retrieval of old items was associated with increased blood flow in the left medial temporal lobe and with a brief late positive ERP component. The results provide converging hemodynamic and electrophysiological evidence for the distinction of task- and item-related processes, show that they map onto spatially and temporally distinct patterns of brain activity, and clarify the hemispheric encoding/retrieval asymmetry (HERA) model of prefrontal encoding and retrieval asymmetry.



Task-related episodic retrieval versus semantic. Episodic retrieval with a decision whether a visually presented word was presented in an encoding list with right hand button response versus semantic retrieval. WOEXP: 565. 



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Ann Neurol. 1999 Jan;45(1):40-7.

Region-specific encoding of sensory and affective components of pain in the human brain: a positron emission tomography correlation analysis.
Tölle TR, Kaufmann T, Siessmeier T, Lautenbacher S, Berthele A, Munz F, Zieglgänsberger W, Willoch F, Schwaiger M, Conrad B, Bartenstein P.

Department of Neurology, Technical University, Munich, Germany.

Brain imaging with positron emission tomography has identified some of the principal cerebral structures of a central network activated by pain. To discover whether the different cortical and subcortical areas process different components of the multidimensional nature of pain, we performed a regression analysis between noxious heat-related regional blood flow increases and experimental pain parameters reflecting detection of pain, encoding of pain intensity, as well as pain unpleasantness. The results of our activation study indicate that different functions in pain processing can be attributed to different brain regions; ie, the gating function reflected by the pain threshold appeared to be related to anterior cingulate cortex, the frontal inferior cortex, and the thalamus, the coding of pain intensity to the periventricular gray as well as to the posterior cingulate cortex, and the encoding of pain unpleasantness to the posterior sector of the anterior cingulate cortex.


Correlation with pain intensity. Correlation with subjective ratings of pain intensity with hot pain right volar forearm. WOEXP: 248. 


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J Neurosci. 1994 Jul;14(7):4095-108.

Distributed processing of pain and vibration by the human brain.
Coghill RC, Talbot JD, Evans AC, Meyer E, Gjedde A, Bushnell MC, Duncan GH.

Centre de Recherche en Sciences Neurologiques, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

Pain is a diverse sensory and emotional experience that likely involves activation of numerous regions of the brain. Yet, many of these areas are also implicated in the processing of nonpainful somatosensory information. In order to better characterize the processing of pain within the human brain, activation produced by noxious stimuli was compared with that produced by robust innocuous stimuli. Painful heat (47-48 degrees C), nonpainful vibratory (110 Hz), and neutral control (34 degrees C) stimuli were applied to the left forearm of right-handed male subjects. Activation of regions within the diencephalon and telencephalon was evaluated by measuring regional cerebral blood flow using positron emission tomography (15O-water-bolus method). Painful stimulation produced contralateral activation in primary and secondary somatosensory cortices (SI and SII), anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula, the supplemental motor area of the frontal cortex, and thalamus. Vibrotactile stimulation produced activation in contralateral SI, and bilaterally in SII and posterior insular cortices. A direct comparison of pain and vibrotactile stimulation revealed that both stimuli produced activation in similar regions of SI and SII, regions long thought to be involved in basic somatosensory processing. In contrast, painful stimuli were significantly more effective in activating the anterior insula, a region heavily linked with both somatosensory and limbic systems. Such connections may provide one route through which nociceptive input may be integrated with memory in order to allow a full appreciation of the meaning and dangers of painful stimuli. These data reveal that pain-related activation, although predominantly contralateral in distribution, is more widely dispersed across both cortical and thalamic regions than that produced during innocuous vibrotactile stimulation. This distributed cerebral activation reflects the complex nature of pain, involving discriminative, affective, autonomic, and motoric components. Furthermore, the high degree of interconnectivity among activated regions may account for the difficulty of eliminating pathological pain with discrete CNS lesions.


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J Cogn Neurosci. 2000 Sep;12(5):711-20.

Brain areas involved in perception of biological motion.
Grossman E, Donnelly M, Price R, Pickens D, Morgan V, Neighbor G, Blake R.

Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA. e.grossman@vanderbilt.edu

These experiments use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reveal neural activity uniquely associated with perception of biological motion. We isolated brain areas activated during the viewing of point-light figures, then compared those areas to regions known to be involved in coherent-motion perception and kinetic-boundary perception. Coherent motion activated a region matching previous reports of human MT/MST complex located on the temporo-parieto-occipital junction. Kinetic boundaries activated a region posterior and adjacent to human MT previously identified as the kinetic-occipital (KO) region or the lateral-occipital (LO) complex. The pattern of activation during viewing of biological motion was located within a small region on the ventral bank of the occipital extent of the superior-temporal sulcus (STS). This region is located lateral and anterior to human MT/MST, and anterior to KO. Among our observers, we localized this region more frequently in the right hemisphere than in the left. This was true regardless of whether the point-light figures were presented in the right or left hemifield. A small region in the medial cerebellum was also active when observers viewed biological-motion sequences. Consistent with earlier neuroimaging and single-unit studies, this pattern of results points to the existence of neural mechanisms specialized for analysis of the kinematics defining biological motion.

Biological visual motion. Biological motion of dots versus scrambled motion of dots. WOEXP: 111. 


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Nat Neurosci. 2000 Mar;3(3):277-83.

A multimodal cortical network for the detection of changes in the sensory environment.
Downar J, Crawley AP, Mikulis DJ, Davis KD.

Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, and Toronto Western Research Institute, MP14-322, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada.

Sensory stimuli undergoing sudden changes draw attention and preferentially enter our awareness. We used event-related functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify brain regions responsive to changes in visual, auditory and tactile stimuli. Unimodally responsive areas included visual, auditory and somatosensory association cortex. Multimodally responsive areas comprised a right-lateralized network including the temporoparietal junction, inferior frontal gyrus, insula and left cingulate and supplementary motor areas. These results reveal a distributed, multimodal network for involuntary attention to events in the sensory environment. This network contains areas thought to underlie the P300 event-related potential and closely corresponds to the set of cortical regions damaged in patients with hemineglect syndromes.


ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS Auditory change. Change between two sounds, running water and croaking frogs versus change in visual or tactile stimuli. WOEXP: 454. 

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Hum Brain Mapp. 2000 Jun;10(2):74-9.

Lateralized automatic auditory processing of phonetic versus musical information: a PET study.
Tervaniemi M, Medvedev SV, Alho K, Pakhomov SV, Roudas MS, Van Zuijen TL, Näätänen R.

Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland. Tervanie@Helsinki.Fi

Previous positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies show that during attentive listening, processing of phonetic information is associated with higher activity in the left auditory cortex than in the right auditory cortex while the opposite is true for musical information. The present PET study determined whether automatically activated neural mechanisms for phonetic and musical information are lateralized. To this end, subjects engaged in a visual word classification task were presented with phonetic sound sequences consisting of frequent (P = 0.8) and infrequent (P = 0.2) phonemes and with musical sound sequences consisting of frequent (P = 0.8) and infrequent (P = 0.2) chords. The phonemes and chords were matched in spectral complexity as well as in the magnitude of frequency difference between the frequent and infrequent sounds (/e/ vs. /o/; A major vs. A minor). In addition, control sequences, consisting of either frequent (/e/; A major) or infrequent sounds (/o/; A minor) were employed in separate blocks. When sound sequences consisted of intermixed frequent and infrequent sounds, automatic phonetic processing was lateralized to the left hemisphere and musical to the right hemisphere. This lateralization, however, did not occur in control blocks with one type of sound (frequent or infrequent). The data thus indicate that automatic activation of lateralized neuronal circuits requires sound comparison based on short-term sound representations.

Chords simulation: standard sequence versus deviant sequence. WOEXP: 22. 

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J Cogn Neurosci. 2000;12 Suppl 2:118-29.

Neural activation during response competition.
Hazeltine E, Poldrack R, Gabrieli JD.

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94305, USA.

The flanker task, introduced by Eriksen and Eriksen [Eriksen, B. A., & Eriksen, C. W. (1974). Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task. Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 143--149], provides a means to selectively manipulate the presence or absence of response competition while keeping other task demands constant. We measured brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during performance of the flanker task. In accordance with previous behavioral studies, trials in which the flanking stimuli indicated a different response than the central stimulus were performed significantly more slowly than trials in which all the stimuli indicated the same response. This reaction time effect was accompanied by increases in activity in four regions: the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, the supplementary motor area, the left superior parietal lobe, and the left anterior parietal cortex. The increases were not due to changes in stimulus complexity or the need to overcome previously learned associations between stimuli and responses. Correspondences between this study and other experiments manipulating response interference suggest that the frontal foci may be related to response inhibition processes whereas the posterior foci may be related to the activation of representations of the inappropriate responses.


Response competition. Visual presentation of three colored circles with response by pressing of either of two buttons determined by the color of the center circle. Incongruent trials with flanking circles indicating a competing response versus congruent trials with flanking circles indicating the same response as the center circle. WOEXP: 134. 

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J Neurosci. 1994 Jul;14(7):4095-108.

Distributed processing of pain and vibration by the human brain.
Coghill RC, Talbot JD, Evans AC, Meyer E, Gjedde A, Bushnell MC, Duncan GH.

Centre de Recherche en Sciences Neurologiques, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

Pain is a diverse sensory and emotional experience that likely involves activation of numerous regions of the brain. Yet, many of these areas are also implicated in the processing of nonpainful somatosensory information. In order to better characterize the processing of pain within the human brain, activation produced by noxious stimuli was compared with that produced by robust innocuous stimuli. Painful heat (47-48 degrees C), nonpainful vibratory (110 Hz), and neutral control (34 degrees C) stimuli were applied to the left forearm of right-handed male subjects. Activation of regions within the diencephalon and telencephalon was evaluated by measuring regional cerebral blood flow using positron emission tomography (15O-water-bolus method). Painful stimulation produced contralateral activation in primary and secondary somatosensory cortices (SI and SII), anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula, the supplemental motor area of the frontal cortex, and thalamus. Vibrotactile stimulation produced activation in contralateral SI, and bilaterally in SII and posterior insular cortices. A direct comparison of pain and vibrotactile stimulation revealed that both stimuli produced activation in similar regions of SI and SII, regions long thought to be involved in basic somatosensory processing. In contrast, painful stimuli were significantly more effective in activating the anterior insula, a region heavily linked with both somatosensory and limbic systems. Such connections may provide one route through which nociceptive input may be integrated with memory in order to allow a full appreciation of the meaning and dangers of painful stimuli. These data reveal that pain-related activation, although predominantly contralateral in distribution, is more widely dispersed across both cortical and thalamic regions than that produced during innocuous vibrotactile stimulation. This distributed cerebral activation reflects the complex nature of pain, involving discriminative, affective, autonomic, and motoric components. Furthermore, the high degree of interconnectivity among activated regions may account for the difficulty of eliminating pathological pain with discrete CNS lesions.




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Neuroreport. 2005 Apr 25;16(6):649-52.

Motion verb sentences activate left posterior middle temporal cortex despite static context.
Wallentin M, Lund TE, Ostergaard S, Ostergaard L, Roepstorff A.

Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University, Niels Juels Gade 84, 8200 Arhus N, Denmark. mikkel@pet.auh.dk

The left posterior middle temporal region, anterior to V5/MT, has been shown to be responsive both to images with implied motion, to simulated motion, and to motion verbs. In this study, we investigated whether sentence context alters the response of the left posterior middle temporal region. 'Fictive motion' sentences are sentences in which an inanimate subject noun, semantically incapable of self movement, is coupled with a motion verb, yielding an apparent semantic contradiction (e.g. 'The path comes into the garden.'). However, this context yields no less activation in the left posterior middle temporal region than sentences in which the motion can be applied to the subject noun. We speculate that the left posterior middle temporal region activity in fictive motion sentences reflects the fact that the hearer applies motion to the depicted scenario by scanning it egocentrically.


The left posterior middle temporal region, anterior to V5/MT, has been shown to be responsive both to images with implied motion, to simulated motion, and to motion verbs

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