title: Prefrontal cortex and somatosensory cortex in tactile crossmodal association: an independent component analysis of ERP recordings.
abstract: Our previous studies on scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) showed that somatosensory N140 evoked by a tactile vibration in working memory tasks was enhanced when human subjects expected a coming visual stimulus that had been paired with the tactile stimulus. The results suggested that such enhancement represented the cortical activities involved in tactile-visual crossmodal association. In the present study, we further hypothesized that the enhancement represented the neural activities in somatosensory and frontal cortices in the crossmodal association. By applying independent component analysis (ICA) to the ERP data, we found independent components (ICs) located in the medial prefrontal cortex (around the anterior cingulate cortex, ACC) and the primary somatosensory cortex (SI). The activity represented by the IC in SI cortex showed enhancement in expectation of the visual stimulus. Such differential activity thus suggested the participation of SI cortex in the task-related crossmodal association. Further, the coherence analysis and the Granger causality spectral analysis of the ICs showed that SI cortex appeared to cooperate with ACC in attention and perception of the tactile stimulus in crossmodal association. The results of our study support with new evidence an important idea in cortical neurophysiology: higher cognitive operations develop from the modality-specific sensory cortices (in the present study, SI cortex) that are involved in sensation and perception of various stimuli.
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors: Yixuan
authors: Y
authors: Ku
authors: Shinji
authors: S
authors: Ohara
authors: Liping
authors: L
authors: Wang
authors: Fred A
authors: FA
authors: Lenz
authors: Steven S
authors: SS
authors: Hsiao
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Bodner
authors: Bo
authors: B
authors: Hong
authors: Yong-Di
authors: YD
authors: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology; D055698:Touch Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014732:Vibration; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult
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