title: Correlation of brain rhythms between frontal and left temporal (Wernicke's) cortical areas during verbal thinking.
abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate an interaction between frontal and left temporo-parietal cortices in tasks requiring word association. A new method was used to examine averaged event-related potentials in different frequency bands by calculating correlation coefficients between wavelet curves in distant cortical areas. This method was applied to previous event-related potentials recordings which found successive activation of frontal and left posterior areas [1]. Correlated activity at 17 Hz was observed between frontal and left temporal (Wernicke's) areas prior to full activation of Wernicke's area.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Butlerov str. 5a, GSP-7, 117865, Moscow, Russia. nikolaev@aha.ru
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Nikolaev
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Ivanitsky
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ivanitsky
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Posner
authors.forename: Y G
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Abdullaev
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001611:Beta Rhythm; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology