title: Cortical gamma oscillations modulated by word association tasks: intracranial recording.
abstract: Recent studies have suggested that cortical activation can be measured using event-related augmentation of gamma oscillations in humans. We determined how commonly and differentially gamma oscillations (50-150Hz) were modulated by three distinct word-association tasks during extraoperative electrocorticography monitoring in a patient with focal epilepsy who underwent epilepsy surgery. He was auditorily presented names of common foods (e.g., apple) during each task. He was instructed to overtly verbalize the color (e.g., red) of each given food during the first association task, the taste (e.g., sweet) during the second task, and the texture (e.g., crunchy) during the third task. All three word-association tasks commonly elicited significant augmentation of gamma oscillations in the superior temporal gyrus, the middle temporal gyrus, and the inferior frontal gyrus, as well as the pre- and postcentral gyri. The food-texture association task specifically elicited significant gamma augmentation in the supramarginal gyrus. This preliminary study generated the hypothesis that word-association tasks may supplement functional language mapping using electrical stimulation. Differential gamma augmentation in the supramarginal gyrus might be attributed to a larger workload required in the food-texture association task compared with the remaining two tasks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center, 3901 Beaubien Street, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
authors.forename: Lunliya
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Thampratankul
authors.forename: Tetsuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagasawa
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rothermel
authors.forename: Csaba
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Juhasz
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sood
authors.forename: Eishi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Asano
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D014936:Word Association Tests
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