title: High gamma activity in response to deviant auditory stimuli recorded directly from human cortex.
abstract: We recorded electrophysiological responses from the left frontal and temporal cortex of awake neurosurgical patients to both repetitive background and rare deviant auditory stimuli. Prominent sensory event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from auditory association cortex of the temporal lobe and adjacent regions surrounding the posterior Sylvian fissure. Deviant stimuli generated an additional longer latency mismatch response, maximal at more anterior temporal lobe sites. We found low gamma (30-60 Hz) in auditory association cortex, and we also show the existence of high-frequency oscillations above the traditional gamma range (high gamma, 60-250 Hz). Sensory and mismatch potentials were not reliably observed at frontal recording sites. We suggest that the high gamma oscillations are sensory-induced neocortical ripples, similar in physiological origin to the well-studied ripples of the hippocampus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA. erik@socrates.berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soltani
authors.forename: Leon Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Deouell
authors.forename: Mitchel S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: Robert T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005062:European Union; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013997:Time Factors