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Lu Y, Rinzel J. Firing rate models for gamma oscillations in I-I and E-I networks. J Comput Neurosci 2024; 52:247-266. [PMID: 39160322 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-024-00877-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2024] [Revised: 07/15/2024] [Accepted: 08/05/2024] [Indexed: 08/21/2024]
Abstract
Firing rate models for describing the mean-field activities of neuronal ensembles can be used effectively to study network function and dynamics, including synchronization and rhythmicity of excitatory-inhibitory populations. However, traditional Wilson-Cowan-like models, even when extended to include an explicit dynamic synaptic activation variable, are found unable to capture some dynamics such as Interneuronal Network Gamma oscillations (ING). Use of an explicit delay is helpful in simulations at the expense of complicating mathematical analysis. We resolve this issue by introducing a dynamic variable, u, that acts as an effective delay in the negative feedback loop between firing rate (r) and synaptic gating of inhibition (s). In effect, u endows synaptic activation with second order dynamics. With linear stability analysis, numerical branch-tracking and simulations, we show that our r-u-s rate model captures some key qualitative features of spiking network models for ING. We also propose an alternative formulation, a v-u-s model, in which mean membrane potential v satisfies an averaged current-balance equation. Furthermore, we extend the framework to E-I networks. With our six-variable v-u-s model, we demonstrate in firing rate models the transition from Pyramidal-Interneuronal Network Gamma (PING) to ING by increasing the external drive to the inhibitory population without adjusting synaptic weights. Having PING and ING available in a single network, without invoking synaptic blockers, is plausible and natural for explaining the emergence and transition of two different types of gamma oscillations.
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- Yiqing Lu
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
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Nandi MK, Valla M, di Volo M. Bursting gamma oscillations in neural mass models. Front Comput Neurosci 2024; 18:1422159. [PMID: 39281982 PMCID: PMC11392745 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2024.1422159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2024] [Accepted: 08/08/2024] [Indexed: 09/18/2024] Open
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Gamma oscillations (30-120 Hz) in the brain are not periodic cycles, but they typically appear in short-time windows, often called oscillatory bursts. While the origin of this bursting phenomenon is still unclear, some recent studies hypothesize its origin in the external or endogenous noise of neural networks. We demonstrate that an exact neural mass model of excitatory and inhibitory quadratic-integrate and fire-spiking neurons theoretically predicts the emergence of a different regime of intrinsic bursting gamma (IBG) oscillations without any noise source, a phenomenon due to collective chaos. This regime is indeed observed in the direct simulation of spiking neurons, characterized by highly irregular spiking activity. IBG oscillations are distinguished by higher phase-amplitude coupling to slower theta oscillations concerning noise-induced bursting oscillations, thus indicating an increased capacity for information transfer between brain regions. We demonstrate that this phenomenon is present in both globally coupled and sparse networks of spiking neurons. These results propose a new mechanism for gamma oscillatory activity, suggesting deterministic collective chaos as a good candidate for the origin of gamma bursts.
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- Manoj Kumar Nandi
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France
- INSERM U1208 Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau, Bron, France
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France
- INSERM U1208 Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau, Bron, France
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France
- INSERM U1208 Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau, Bron, France
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Farineau J, Lestienne R. Cortical dynamics of perception as trains of coherent gamma oscillations, with the pulvinar as central coordinator. Brain Inform 2024; 11:20. [PMID: 39162950 PMCID: PMC11336127 DOI: 10.1186/s40708-024-00235-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2024] [Accepted: 07/30/2024] [Indexed: 08/21/2024] Open
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Synchronization of spikes carried by the visual streams is strategic for the proper binding of cortical assemblies, hence for the perception of visual objects as coherent units. Perception of a complex visual scene involves multiple trains of gamma oscillations, coexisting at each stage in visual and associative cortex. Here, we analyze how this synchrony is managed, so that the perception of each visual object can emerge despite this complex interweaving of cortical activations. After a brief review of structural and temporal facts, we analyze the interactions which make the oscillations coherent for the visual elements related to the same object. We continue with the propagation of these gamma oscillations within the sensory chain. The dominant role of the pulvinar and associated reticular thalamic nucleus as cortical coordinator is the common thread running through this step-by-step description. Synchronization mechanisms are analyzed in the context of visual perception, although the present considerations are not limited to this sense. A simple experiment is described, with the aim of assessing the validity of the elements developed here. A first set of results is provided, together with a proposed method to go further in this investigation.
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- Honorary Research Director at CNRS, Paris, France
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Spyropoulos G, Schneider M, van Kempen J, Gieselmann MA, Thiele A, Vinck M. Distinct feedforward and feedback pathways for cell-type specific attention effects. Neuron 2024; 112:2423-2434.e7. [PMID: 38759641 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 02/12/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024]
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Selective attention is thought to depend on enhanced firing activity in extrastriate areas. Theories suggest that this enhancement depends on selective inter-areal communication via gamma (30-80 Hz) phase-locking. To test this, we simultaneously recorded from different cell types and cortical layers of macaque V1 and V4. We find that while V1-V4 gamma phase-locking between local field potentials increases with attention, the V1 gamma rhythm does not engage V4 excitatory-neurons, but only fast-spiking interneurons in L4 of V4. By contrast, attention enhances V4 spike-rates in both excitatory and inhibitory cells, most strongly in L2/3. The rate increase in L2/3 of V4 precedes V1 in time. These findings suggest enhanced signal transmission with attention does not depend on inter-areal gamma phase-locking and show that the endogenous gamma rhythm has cell-type- and layer-specific effects on downstream target areas. Similar findings were made in the mouse visual system, based on opto-tagging of identified interneurons.
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- Georgios Spyropoulos
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroinformatics, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroinformatics, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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Kanth ST, Ray S. Gamma Responses to Colored Natural Stimuli Can Be Predicted from Local Low-Level Stimulus Features. eNeuro 2024; 11:ENEURO.0417-23.2024. [PMID: 39054054 PMCID: PMC11277289 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0417-23.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024] Open
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The role of gamma rhythm (30-80 Hz) in visual processing is debated; stimuli like gratings and hue patches generate strong gamma, but many natural images do not. Could image gamma responses be predicted by approximating images as gratings or hue patches? Surprisingly, this question remains unanswered, since the joint dependence of gamma on multiple features is poorly understood. We recorded local field potentials and electrocorticogram from two female monkeys while presenting natural images and parametric stimuli varying along several feature dimensions. Gamma responses to different grating/hue features were separable, allowing for a multiplicative model based on individual features. By fitting a hue patch to the image around the receptive field, this simple model could predict gamma responses to chromatic images across scales with reasonably high accuracy. Our results provide a simple "baseline" model to predict gamma from local image properties, against which more complex models of natural vision can be tested.
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- Sidrat Tasawoor Kanth
- IISc Mathematics Initiative, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
- Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- IISc Mathematics Initiative, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
- Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Huang Y, Brosch M. Behavior-related visual activations in the auditory cortex of nonhuman primates. Prog Neurobiol 2024; 240:102637. [PMID: 38879074 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2024.102637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024]
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While it is well established that sensory cortical regions traditionally thought to be unimodal can be activated by stimuli from modalities other than the dominant one, functions of such foreign-modal activations are still not clear. Here we show that visual activations in early auditory cortex can be related to whether or not the monkeys engaged in audio-visual tasks, to the time when the monkeys reacted to the visual component of such tasks, and to the correctness of the monkeys' response to the auditory component of such tasks. These relationships between visual activations and behavior suggest that auditory cortex can be recruited for visually-guided behavior and that visual activations can prime auditory cortex such that it is prepared for processing future sounds. Our study thus provides evidence that foreign-modal activations in sensory cortex can contribute to a subject's ability to perform tasks on stimuli from foreign and dominant modalities.
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- Ying Huang
- Research Group Comparative Neuroscience, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestraße 6, Magdeburg 39118, Germany.
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- Research Group Comparative Neuroscience, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestraße 6, Magdeburg 39118, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Universitätsplatz 2, Magdeburg 39106, Germany
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Holt CJ, Miller KD, Ahmadian Y. The stabilized supralinear network accounts for the contrast dependence of visual cortical gamma oscillations. PLoS Comput Biol 2024; 20:e1012190. [PMID: 38935792 PMCID: PMC11236182 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 07/10/2024] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024] Open
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When stimulated, neural populations in the visual cortex exhibit fast rhythmic activity with frequencies in the gamma band (30-80 Hz). The gamma rhythm manifests as a broad resonance peak in the power-spectrum of recorded local field potentials, which exhibits various stimulus dependencies. In particular, in macaque primary visual cortex (V1), the gamma peak frequency increases with increasing stimulus contrast. Moreover, this contrast dependence is local: when contrast varies smoothly over visual space, the gamma peak frequency in each cortical column is controlled by the local contrast in that column's receptive field. No parsimonious mechanistic explanation for these contrast dependencies of V1 gamma oscillations has been proposed. The stabilized supralinear network (SSN) is a mechanistic model of cortical circuits that has accounted for a range of visual cortical response nonlinearities and contextual modulations, as well as their contrast dependence. Here, we begin by showing that a reduced SSN model without retinotopy robustly captures the contrast dependence of gamma peak frequency, and provides a mechanistic explanation for this effect based on the observed non-saturating and supralinear input-output function of V1 neurons. Given this result, the local dependence on contrast can trivially be captured in a retinotopic SSN which however lacks horizontal synaptic connections between its cortical columns. However, long-range horizontal connections in V1 are in fact strong, and underlie contextual modulation effects such as surround suppression. We thus explored whether a retinotopically organized SSN model of V1 with strong excitatory horizontal connections can exhibit both surround suppression and the local contrast dependence of gamma peak frequency. We found that retinotopic SSNs can account for both effects, but only when the horizontal excitatory projections are composed of two components with different patterns of spatial fall-off with distance: a short-range component that only targets the source column, combined with a long-range component that targets columns neighboring the source column. We thus make a specific qualitative prediction for the spatial structure of horizontal connections in macaque V1, consistent with the columnar structure of cortex.
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- Caleb J Holt
- Department of Physics, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
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- Deptartment of Neuroscience, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Morton B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Engineering, Computational and Biological Learning Lab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Quintana D, Bounds H, Veit J, Adesnik H. Balanced bidirectional optogenetics reveals the causal impact of cortical temporal dynamics in sensory perception. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.30.596706. [PMID: 38853943 PMCID: PMC11160799 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.30.596706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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Whether the fast temporal dynamics of neural activity in brain circuits causally drive perception and cognition remains one of most longstanding unresolved questions in neuroscience 1-6 . While some theories posit a 'timing code' in which dynamics on the millisecond timescale is central to brain function, others instead argue that mean firing rates over more extended periods (a 'rate code') carry most of the relevant information. Existing tools, such as optogenetics, can be used to alter temporal structure of neural dynamics 7 , but they invariably change mean firing rates, leaving the interpretation of such experiments ambiguous. Here we developed and validated a new approach based on balanced, bidirectional optogenetics that can alter temporal structure of neural dynamics while mitigating effects on mean activity. Using this new approach, we found that selectively altering cortical temporal dynamics substantially reduced performance in a sensory perceptual task. These results demonstrate that endogenous temporal dynamics in the cortex are causally required for perception and behavior. More generally, this new bidirectional optogenetic approach should be broadly useful for disentangling the causal impact of different timescales of neural dynamics on behavior.
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Gulati D, Ray S. Auditory and Visual Gratings Elicit Distinct Gamma Responses. eNeuro 2024; 11:ENEURO.0116-24.2024. [PMID: 38604776 PMCID: PMC11046261 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0116-24.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2024] [Revised: 04/01/2024] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024] Open
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Sensory stimulation is often accompanied by fluctuations at high frequencies (>30 Hz) in brain signals. These could be "narrowband" oscillations in the gamma band (30-70 Hz) or nonoscillatory "broadband" high-gamma (70-150 Hz) activity. Narrowband gamma oscillations, which are induced by presenting some visual stimuli such as gratings and have been shown to weaken with healthy aging and the onset of Alzheimer's disease, hold promise as potential biomarkers. However, since delivering visual stimuli is cumbersome as it requires head stabilization for eye tracking, an equivalent auditory paradigm could be useful. Although simple auditory stimuli have been shown to produce high-gamma activity, whether specific auditory stimuli can also produce narrowband gamma oscillations is unknown. We tested whether auditory ripple stimuli, which are considered an analog to visual gratings, could elicit narrowband oscillations in auditory areas. We recorded 64-channel electroencephalogram from male and female (18 each) subjects while they either fixated on the monitor while passively viewing static visual gratings or listened to stationary and moving ripples, played using loudspeakers, with their eyes open or closed. We found that while visual gratings induced narrowband gamma oscillations with suppression in the alpha band (8-12 Hz), auditory ripples did not produce narrowband gamma but instead elicited very strong broadband high-gamma response and suppression in the beta band (14-26 Hz). Even though we used equivalent stimuli in both modalities, our findings indicate that the underlying neuronal circuitry may not share ubiquitous strategies for stimulus processing.
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- Divya Gulati
- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India
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Meneghetti N, Vannini E, Mazzoni A. Rodents' visual gamma as a biomarker of pathological neural conditions. J Physiol 2024; 602:1017-1048. [PMID: 38372352 DOI: 10.1113/jp283858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024] Open
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Neural gamma oscillations (indicatively 30-100 Hz) are ubiquitous: they are associated with a broad range of functions in multiple cortical areas and across many animal species. Experimental and computational works established gamma rhythms as a global emergent property of neuronal networks generated by the balanced and coordinated interaction of excitation and inhibition. Coherently, gamma activity is strongly influenced by the alterations of synaptic dynamics which are often associated with pathological neural dysfunctions. We argue therefore that these oscillations are an optimal biomarker for probing the mechanism of cortical dysfunctions. Gamma oscillations are also highly sensitive to external stimuli in sensory cortices, especially the primary visual cortex (V1), where the stimulus dependence of gamma oscillations has been thoroughly investigated. Gamma manipulation by visual stimuli tuning is particularly easy in rodents, which have become a standard animal model for investigating the effects of network alterations on gamma oscillations. Overall, gamma in the rodents' visual cortex offers an accessible probe on dysfunctional information processing in pathological conditions. Beyond vision-related dysfunctions, alterations of gamma oscillations in rodents were indeed also reported in neural deficits such as migraine, epilepsy and neurodegenerative or neuropsychiatric conditions such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders. Altogether, the connections between visual cortical gamma activity and physio-pathological conditions in rodent models underscore the potential of gamma oscillations as markers of neuronal (dys)functioning.
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- Nicolò Meneghetti
- The Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Excellence for Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy
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- The Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Excellence for Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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Liang J, Yang Z, Zhou C. Excitation-Inhibition Balance, Neural Criticality, and Activities in Neuronal Circuits. Neuroscientist 2024:10738584231221766. [PMID: 38291889 DOI: 10.1177/10738584231221766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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Neural activities in local circuits exhibit complex and multilevel dynamic features. Individual neurons spike irregularly, which is believed to originate from receiving balanced amounts of excitatory and inhibitory inputs, known as the excitation-inhibition balance. The spatial-temporal cascades of clustered neuronal spikes occur in variable sizes and durations, manifested as neural avalanches with scale-free features. These may be explained by the neural criticality hypothesis, which posits that neural systems operate around the transition between distinct dynamic states. Here, we summarize the experimental evidence for and the underlying theory of excitation-inhibition balance and neural criticality. Furthermore, we review recent studies of excitatory-inhibitory networks with synaptic kinetics as a simple solution to reconcile these two apparently distinct theories in a single circuit model. This provides a more unified understanding of multilevel neural activities in local circuits, from spontaneous to stimulus-response dynamics.
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- Junhao Liang
- Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies and Beijing-Hong Kong-Singapore Joint Centre for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (Hong Kong), Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies and Beijing-Hong Kong-Singapore Joint Centre for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (Hong Kong), Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
- Life Science Imaging Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
- Research Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University Institute of Research and Continuing Education, Shenzhen, China
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Shi C, Zhang C, Chen JF, Yao Z. Enhancement of low gamma oscillations by volitional conditioning of local field potential in the primary motor and visual cortex of mice. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae051. [PMID: 38425214 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 01/25/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
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Volitional control of local field potential oscillations in low gamma band via brain machine interface can not only uncover the relationship between low gamma oscillation and neural synchrony but also suggest a therapeutic potential to reverse abnormal local field potential oscillation in neurocognitive disorders. In nonhuman primates, the volitional control of low gamma oscillations has been demonstrated by brain machine interface techniques in the primary motor and visual cortex. However, it is not clear whether this holds in other brain regions and other species, for which gamma rhythms might involve in highly different neural processes. Here, we established a closed-loop brain-machine interface and succeeded in training mice to volitionally elevate low gamma power of local field potential in the primary motor and visual cortex. We found that the mice accomplished the task in a goal-directed manner and spiking activity exhibited phase-locking to the oscillation in local field potential in both areas. Moreover, long-term training made the power enhancement specific to direct and adjacent channel, and increased the transcriptional levels of NMDA receptors as well as that of hypoxia-inducible factor relevant to metabolism. Our results suggest that volitionally generated low gamma rhythms in different brain regions share similar mechanisms and pave the way for employing brain machine interface in therapy of neurocognitive disorders.
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- Chennan Shi
- The Molecular Neuropharmacology Laboratory and the Eye-Brain Research Center, The State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
- Oujiang Laboratory (Zhejiang Lab for Regenerative Medicine, Vision and Brain Health), School of Ophthalmology & Optometry and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325001, China
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- The Molecular Neuropharmacology Laboratory and the Eye-Brain Research Center, The State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- The Molecular Neuropharmacology Laboratory and the Eye-Brain Research Center, The State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
- Oujiang Laboratory (Zhejiang Lab for Regenerative Medicine, Vision and Brain Health), School of Ophthalmology & Optometry and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325001, China
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- The Molecular Neuropharmacology Laboratory and the Eye-Brain Research Center, The State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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Das A, Nandi N, Ray S. Alpha and SSVEP power outperform gamma power in capturing attentional modulation in human EEG. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhad412. [PMID: 37948668 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2023] [Revised: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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Attention typically reduces power in the alpha (8-12 Hz) band and increases power in gamma (>30 Hz) band in brain signals, as reported in macaque local field potential (LFP) and human electro/magneto-encephalogram (EEG/MEG) studies. In addition, EEG studies often use flickering stimuli that produce a specific measure called steady-state-visually-evoked-potential (SSVEP), whose power also increases with attention. However, effectiveness of these neural measures in capturing attentional modulation is unknown since stimuli and task paradigms vary widely across studies. In a recent macaque study, attentional modulation was more salient in the gamma band of the LFP, compared to alpha or SSVEP. To compare this with human EEG, we designed an orientation change detection task where we presented both static and counterphasing stimuli of matched difficulty levels to 26 subjects and compared attentional modulation of various measures under similar conditions. We report two main results. First, attentional modulation was comparable for SSVEP and alpha. Second, non-foveal stimuli produced weak gamma despite various stimulus optimizations and showed negligible attentional modulation although full-screen gratings showed robust gamma activity. Our results are useful for brain-machine-interfacing studies where suitable features are used for decoding attention, and also provide clues about spatial scales of neural mechanisms underlying attention.
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- Aritra Das
- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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Shipp S. Computational components of visual predictive coding circuitry. Front Neural Circuits 2024; 17:1254009. [PMID: 38259953 PMCID: PMC10800426 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2023.1254009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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If a full visual percept can be said to be a 'hypothesis', so too can a neural 'prediction' - although the latter addresses one particular component of image content (such as 3-dimensional organisation, the interplay between lighting and surface colour, the future trajectory of moving objects, and so on). And, because processing is hierarchical, predictions generated at one level are conveyed in a backward direction to a lower level, seeking to predict, in fact, the neural activity at that prior stage of processing, and learning from errors signalled in the opposite direction. This is the essence of 'predictive coding', at once an algorithm for information processing and a theoretical basis for the nature of operations performed by the cerebral cortex. Neural models for the implementation of predictive coding invoke specific functional classes of neuron for generating, transmitting and receiving predictions, and for producing reciprocal error signals. Also a third general class, 'precision' neurons, tasked with regulating the magnitude of error signals contingent upon the confidence placed upon the prediction, i.e., the reliability and behavioural utility of the sensory data that it predicts. So, what is the ultimate source of a 'prediction'? The answer is multifactorial: knowledge of the current environmental context and the immediate past, allied to memory and lifetime experience of the way of the world, doubtless fine-tuned by evolutionary history too. There are, in consequence, numerous potential avenues for experimenters seeking to manipulate subjects' expectation, and examine the neural signals elicited by surprising, and less surprising visual stimuli. This review focuses upon the predictive physiology of mouse and monkey visual cortex, summarising and commenting on evidence to date, and placing it in the context of the broader field. It is concluded that predictive coding has a firm grounding in basic neuroscience and that, unsurprisingly, there remains much to learn.
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- Stewart Shipp
- Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Singh S, Becker S, Trappenberg T, Nunes A. Granule cells perform frequency-dependent pattern separation in a computational model of the dentate gyrus. Hippocampus 2024; 34:14-28. [PMID: 37950569 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
Abstract
Mnemonic discrimination (MD) may be dependent on oscillatory perforant path input frequencies to the hippocampus in a "U"-shaped fashion, where some studies show that slow and fast input frequencies support MD, while other studies show that intermediate frequencies disrupt MD. We hypothesize that pattern separation (PS) underlies frequency-dependent MD performance. We aim to study, in a computational model of the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG), the network and cellular mechanisms governing this putative "U"-shaped PS relationship. We implemented a biophysical model of the DG that produces the hypothesized "U"-shaped input frequency-PS relationship, and its associated oscillatory electrophysiological signatures. We subsequently evaluated the network's PS ability using an adapted spatiotemporal task. We undertook systematic lesion studies to identify the network-level mechanisms driving the "U"-shaped input frequency-PS relationship. A minimal circuit of a single granule cell (GC) stimulated with oscillatory inputs was also used to study potential cellular-level mechanisms. Lesioning synapses onto GCs did not impact the "U"-shaped input frequency-PS relationship. Furthermore, GC inhibition limits PS performance for fast frequency inputs, while enhancing PS for slow frequency inputs. GC interspike interval was found to be input frequency dependent in a "U"-shaped fashion, paralleling frequency-dependent PS observed at the network level. Additionally, GCs showed an attenuated firing response for fast frequency inputs. We conclude that independent of network-level inhibition, GCs may intrinsically be capable of producing a "U"-shaped input frequency-PS relationship. GCs may preferentially decorrelate slow and fast inputs via spike timing reorganization and high frequency filtering.
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- Selena Singh
- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Arab F, Rostami S, Dehghani-Habibabadi M, Mateos DM, Braddell R, Scholkmann F, Ismail Zibaii M, Rodrigues S, Salari V, Safari MS. Effects of optogenetic and visual stimulation on gamma activity in the visual cortex. Neurosci Lett 2023; 816:137474. [PMID: 37690497 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 07/22/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
Abstract
Studying brain functions and activity during gamma oscillations can be a challenge because it requires careful planning to create the necessary conditions for a controlled experiment. Such an experiment consists of placing the brain into a gamma state and investigating cognitive processing with a careful design. Cortical oscillations in the gamma frequency range (30-80 Hz) play an essential role in a variety of cognitive processes, including visual processing and cognition. The present study aims to investigate the effects of a visual stimulus on the primary visual cortex under gamma oscillations. Specifically, we sought to explore the behavior of gamma oscillations triggered by optogenetic stimulation in the II and IV layers of the visual cortex, both with and without concurrent visual stimulation. Our results show that optogenetic stimulation increases the power of gamma oscillation in both layers of the visual cortex. However, the combined stimuli resulted in a reduction of gamma power in layer II and an increase and reinforcement in gamma power in layer IV. Modelling the results with the Wilson-Cowan model suggests changes in the input of the excitatory population due to the combined stimuli. In addition, our analysis of the data using the Lempel-Ziv complexity method supports our interpretations from the modeling. Thus, our results suggest that optogenetic stimulation enhances low gamma power in both layers of the visual cortex, while simultaneous visual stimulation has differing effects on the two layers, reducing gamma power in layer II and increasing it in layer IV.
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- Fereshteh Arab
- Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientıficas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Argentina; Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnologıa. Universidad Aut ́onoma de Entre Ŕıos (UADER), Oro Verde, Entre Ŕıos, Argentina; Instituto de Matem ́atica Aplicada del Litoral (IMAL-CONICET-UNL), CCT CONICET, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Alameda de Mazarredo, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
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- Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, Department of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Alameda de Mazarredo, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
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- BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Alameda de Mazarredo, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 1N4, AB, Canada.
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Katsanevaki C, Bastos AM, Cagnan H, Bosman CA, Friston KJ, Fries P. Attentional effects on local V1 microcircuits explain selective V1-V4 communication. Neuroimage 2023; 281:120375. [PMID: 37714390 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023] Open
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Selective attention implements preferential routing of attended stimuli, likely through increasing the influence of the respective synaptic inputs on higher-area neurons. As the inputs of competing stimuli converge onto postsynaptic neurons, presynaptic circuits might offer the best target for attentional top-down influences. If those influences enabled presynaptic circuits to selectively entrain postsynaptic neurons, this might explain selective routing. Indeed, when two visual stimuli induce two gamma rhythms in V1, only the gamma induced by the attended stimulus entrains gamma in V4. Here, we modelled induced responses with a Dynamic Causal Model for Cross-Spectral Densities and found that selective entrainment can be explained by attentional modulation of intrinsic V1 connections. Specifically, local inhibition was decreased in the granular input layer and increased in the supragranular output layer of the V1 circuit that processed the attended stimulus. Thus, presynaptic attentional influences and ensuing entrainment were sufficient to mediate selective routing.
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- Christini Katsanevaki
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt 60528, Germany; International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt 60438, Germany.
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt 60528, Germany; Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
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- The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK; Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH, UK
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525 EN, the Netherlands; Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Center for Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 XH, the Netherlands
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- The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt 60528, Germany; International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt 60438, Germany; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525 EN, the Netherlands
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Kocsis Z, Jenison RL, Taylor PN, Calmus RM, McMurray B, Rhone AE, Sarrett ME, Deifelt Streese C, Kikuchi Y, Gander PE, Berger JI, Kovach CK, Choi I, Greenlee JD, Kawasaki H, Cope TE, Griffiths TD, Howard MA, Petkov CI. Immediate neural impact and incomplete compensation after semantic hub disconnection. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6264. [PMID: 37805497 PMCID: PMC10560235 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42088-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/09/2023] Open
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The human brain extracts meaning using an extensive neural system for semantic knowledge. Whether broadly distributed systems depend on or can compensate after losing a highly interconnected hub is controversial. We report intracranial recordings from two patients during a speech prediction task, obtained minutes before and after neurosurgical treatment requiring disconnection of the left anterior temporal lobe (ATL), a candidate semantic knowledge hub. Informed by modern diaschisis and predictive coding frameworks, we tested hypotheses ranging from solely neural network disruption to complete compensation by the indirectly affected language-related and speech-processing sites. Immediately after ATL disconnection, we observed neurophysiological alterations in the recorded frontal and auditory sites, providing direct evidence for the importance of the ATL as a semantic hub. We also obtained evidence for rapid, albeit incomplete, attempts at neural network compensation, with neural impact largely in the forms stipulated by the predictive coding framework, in specificity, and the modern diaschisis framework, more generally. The overall results validate these frameworks and reveal an immediate impact and capability of the human brain to adjust after losing a brain hub.
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- Zsuzsanna Kocsis
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
- Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- CNNP Lab, Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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Wang J, Azimi H, Zhao Y, Kaeser M, Vaca Sánchez P, Vazquez-Guardado A, Rogers JA, Harvey M, Rainer G. Optogenetic activation of visual thalamus generates artificial visual percepts. eLife 2023; 12:e90431. [PMID: 37791662 PMCID: PMC10593406 DOI: 10.7554/elife.90431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023] Open
Abstract
The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), a retinotopic relay center where visual inputs from the retina are processed and relayed to the visual cortex, has been proposed as a potential target for artificial vision. At present, it is unknown whether optogenetic LGN stimulation is sufficient to elicit behaviorally relevant percepts, and the properties of LGN neural responses relevant for artificial vision have not been thoroughly characterized. Here, we demonstrate that tree shrews pretrained on a visual detection task can detect optogenetic LGN activation using an AAV2-CamKIIα-ChR2 construct and readily generalize from visual to optogenetic detection. Simultaneous recordings of LGN spiking activity and primary visual cortex (V1) local field potentials (LFPs) during optogenetic LGN stimulation show that LGN neurons reliably follow optogenetic stimulation at frequencies up to 60 Hz and uncovered a striking phase locking between the V1 LFP and the evoked spiking activity in LGN. These phase relationships were maintained over a broad range of LGN stimulation frequencies, up to 80 Hz, with spike field coherence values favoring higher frequencies, indicating the ability to relay temporally precise information to V1 using light activation of the LGN. Finally, V1 LFP responses showed sensitivity values to LGN optogenetic activation that were similar to the animal's behavioral performance. Taken together, our findings confirm the LGN as a potential target for visual prosthetics in a highly visual mammal closely related to primates.
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- Jing Wang
- Department of Medicine, University of FribourgFribourgSwitzerland
- Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical UniversityNanjingChina
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- Department of Medicine, University of FribourgFribourgSwitzerland
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- Department of Medicine, University of FribourgFribourgSwitzerland
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- Department of Medicine, University of FribourgFribourgSwitzerland
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- Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern UniversityEvanstonUnited States
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- Department of Medicine, University of FribourgFribourgSwitzerland
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- Department of Medicine, University of FribourgFribourgSwitzerland
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Griffiths BJ, Jensen O. Gamma oscillations and episodic memory. Trends Neurosci 2023; 46:832-846. [PMID: 37550159 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2023] [Revised: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/16/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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Enhanced gamma oscillatory activity (30-80 Hz) accompanies the successful formation and retrieval of episodic memories. While this co-occurrence is well documented, the mechanistic contributions of gamma oscillatory activity to episodic memory remain unclear. Here, we review how gamma oscillatory activity may facilitate spike timing-dependent plasticity, neural communication, and sequence encoding/retrieval, thereby ensuring the successful formation and/or retrieval of an episodic memory. Based on the evidence reviewed, we propose that multiple, distinct forms of gamma oscillation can be found within the canonical gamma band, each of which has a complementary role in the neural processes listed above. Further exploration of these theories using causal manipulations may be key to elucidating the relevance of gamma oscillatory activity to episodic memory.
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- Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Krishnakumaran R, Ray S. Temporal characteristics of gamma rhythm constrain properties of noise in an inhibition-stabilized network model. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:10108-10121. [PMID: 37492002 PMCID: PMC10502791 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/08/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Gamma rhythm refers to oscillatory neural activity between 30 and 80 Hz, induced in visual cortex by stimuli such as iso-luminant hues or gratings. The power and peak frequency of gamma depend on the properties of the stimulus such as size and contrast. Gamma waveform is typically arch-shaped, with narrow troughs and broad peaks, and can be replicated in a self-oscillating Wilson-Cowan (WC) model operating in an appropriate regime. However, oscillations in this model are infinitely long, unlike physiological gamma that occurs in short bursts. Further, unlike the model, gamma is faster after stimulus onset and slows down over time. Here, we first characterized gamma burst duration in local field potential data recorded from two monkeys as they viewed full screen iso-luminant hues. We then added different types of noise in the inputs to the WC model and tested how that affected duration and temporal dynamics of gamma. While the model failed with the often-used Poisson noise, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise applied to both the excitatory and the inhibitory populations replicated the duration and slowing of gamma and replicated the shape and stimulus dependencies. Thus, the temporal dynamics of gamma oscillations put constraints on the type and properties of underlying neural noise.
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- R Krishnakumaran
- IISc Mathematics Initiative, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, C V Raman road, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
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- IISc Mathematics Initiative, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, C V Raman road, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, C V Raman road, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
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Comeaux P, Clark K, Noudoost B. A recruitment through coherence theory of working memory. Prog Neurobiol 2023; 228:102491. [PMID: 37393039 PMCID: PMC10530428 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 06/14/2023] [Accepted: 06/21/2023] [Indexed: 07/03/2023]
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The interactions between prefrontal cortex and other areas during working memory have been studied for decades. Here we outline a conceptual framework describing interactions between these areas during working memory, and review evidence for key elements of this model. We specifically suggest that a top-down signal sent from prefrontal to sensory areas drives oscillations in these areas. Spike timing within sensory areas becomes locked to these working-memory-driven oscillations, and the phase of spiking conveys information about the representation available within these areas. Downstream areas receiving these phase-locked spikes from sensory areas can recover this information via a combination of coherent oscillations and gating of input efficacy based on the phase of their local oscillations. Although the conceptual framework is based on prefrontal interactions with sensory areas during working memory, we also discuss the broader implications of this framework for flexible communication between brain areas in general.
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- Phillip Comeaux
- Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, 36 S. Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA; Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah, 65 Mario Capecchi Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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- Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah, 65 Mario Capecchi Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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- Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah, 65 Mario Capecchi Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA.
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Neuenschwander S, Rosso G, Branco N, Freitag F, Tehovnik EJ, Schmidt KE, Baron J. On the Functional Role of Gamma Synchronization in the Retinogeniculate System of the Cat. J Neurosci 2023; 43:5204-5220. [PMID: 37328291 PMCID: PMC10342227 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1550-22.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Revised: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Fast gamma oscillations, generated within the retina, and transmitted to the cortex via the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), are thought to carry information about stimulus size and continuity. This hypothesis relies mainly on studies conducted under anesthesia and the extent to which it holds under more naturalistic conditions remains unclear. Using multielectrode recordings of spiking activity in the retina and the LGN of both male and female cats, we show that visually driven gamma oscillations are absent for awake states and are highly dependent on halothane (or isoflurane). Under ketamine, responses were nonoscillatory, as in the awake condition. Response entrainment to the monitor refresh was commonly observed up to 120 Hz and was superseded by the gamma oscillatory responses induced by halothane. Given that retinal gamma oscillations are contingent on halothane anesthesia and absent in the awake cat, such oscillations should be considered artifactual, thus playing no functional role in vision.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Gamma rhythms have been proposed to be a robust encoding mechanism critical for visual processing. In the retinogeniculate system of the cat, many studies have shown gamma oscillations associated with responses to static stimuli. Here, we extend these observations to dynamic stimuli. An unexpected finding was that retinal gamma responses strongly depend on halothane concentration levels and are absent in the awake cat. These results weaken the notion that gamma in the retina is relevant for vision. Notably, retinal gamma shares many of the properties of cortical gamma. In this respect, oscillations induced by halothane in the retina may serve as a valuable preparation, although artificial, for studying oscillatory dynamics.
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- Sergio Neuenschwander
- Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, 59076-550, Natal, Brazil
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- Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, 59076-550, Natal, Brazil
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- Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, 59076-550, Natal, Brazil
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- Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, 59076-550, Natal, Brazil
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- Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, 59076-550, Natal, Brazil
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- Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, 59076-550, Natal, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Peterson EJ, Rosen BQ, Belger A, Voytek B, Campbell AM. Aperiodic Neural Activity is a Better Predictor of Schizophrenia than Neural Oscillations. Clin EEG Neurosci 2023; 54:434-445. [PMID: 37287239 DOI: 10.1177/15500594231165589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Diagnosis and symptom severity in schizophrenia are associated with irregularities across neural oscillatory frequency bands, including theta, alpha, beta, and gamma. However, electroencephalographic signals consist of both periodic and aperiodic activity characterized by the (1/fX) shape in the power spectrum. In this paper, we investigated oscillatory and aperiodic activity differences between patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls during a target detection task. Separation into periodic and aperiodic components revealed that the steepness of the power spectrum better-predicted group status than traditional band-limited oscillatory power in classification analysis. Aperiodic activity also outperformed the predictions made using participants' behavioral responses. Additionally, the differences in aperiodic activity were highly consistent across all electrodes. In sum, compared to oscillations the aperiodic activity appears to be a more accurate and more robust way to differentiate patients with schizophrenia from healthy controls.
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- Erik J Peterson
- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Neurosciences Graduate Program, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Neurosciences Graduate Program, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Dowdall JR, Schneider M, Vinck M. Attentional modulation of inter-areal coherence explained by frequency shifts. Neuroimage 2023:120256. [PMID: 37392809 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/03/2023] Open
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Inter-areal coherence has been hypothesized as a mechanism for inter-areal communication. Indeed, empirical studies have observed an increase in inter-areal coherence with attention. Yet, the mechanisms underlying changes in coherence remain largely unknown. Both attention and stimulus salience are associated with shifts in the peak frequency of gamma oscillations in V1, which suggests that the frequency of oscillations may play a role in facilitating changes in inter-areal communication and coherence. In this study, we used computational modeling to investigate how the peak frequency of a sender influences inter-areal coherence. We show that changes in the magnitude of coherence are largely determined by the peak frequency of the sender. However, the pattern of coherence depends on the intrinsic properties of the receiver, specifically whether the receiver integrates or resonates with its synaptic inputs. Because resonant receivers are frequency-selective, resonance has been proposed as a mechanism for selective communication. However, the pattern of coherence changes produced by a resonant receiver is inconsistent with empirical studies. By contrast, an integrator receiver does produce the pattern of coherence with frequency shifts in the sender observed in empirical studies. These results indicate that coherence can be a misleading measure of inter-areal interactions. This led us to develop a new measure of inter-areal interactions, which we refer to as Explained Power. We show that Explained Power maps directly to the signal transmitted by the sender filtered by the receiver, and thus provides a method to quantify the true signals transmitted between the sender and receiver. Together, these findings provide a model of changes in inter-areal coherence and Granger-causality as a result of frequency shifts.
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- Jarrod Robert Dowdall
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroinformatics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroinformatics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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Celotto M, Bím J, Tlaie A, De Feo V, Lemke S, Chicharro D, Nili H, Bieler M, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Donner TH, Brovelli A, Panzeri S. An information-theoretic quantification of the content of communication between brain regions. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.06.14.544903. [PMID: 37398375 PMCID: PMC10312682 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.14.544903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/04/2023]
Abstract
Quantifying the amount, content and direction of communication between brain regions is key to understanding brain function. Traditional methods to analyze brain activity based on the Wiener-Granger causality principle quantify the overall information propagated by neural activity between simultaneously recorded brain regions, but do not reveal the information flow about specific features of interest (such as sensory stimuli). Here, we develop a new information theoretic measure termed Feature-specific Information Transfer (FIT), quantifying how much information about a specific feature flows between two regions. FIT merges the Wiener-Granger causality principle with information-content specificity. We first derive FIT and prove analytically its key properties. We then illustrate and test them with simulations of neural activity, demonstrating that FIT identifies, within the total information flowing between regions, the information that is transmitted about specific features. We then analyze three neural datasets obtained with different recording methods, magneto- and electro-encephalography, and spiking activity, to demonstrate the ability of FIT to uncover the content and direction of information flow between brain regions beyond what can be discerned with traditional anaytical methods. FIT can improve our understanding of how brain regions communicate by uncovering previously hidden feature-specific information flow.
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- Marco Celotto
- Department of Excellence for Neural Information Processing, Center for Molecular Neurobiology (ZMNH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
- Neural Computation Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto (TN), Italy
- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Datamole, s. r. o, Vitezne namesti 577/2 Dejvice, 160 00 Praha 6, The Czech Republic
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- Neural Computation Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto (TN), Italy
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- Artificial Intelligence Team, Future Health Technology, and Brain-Computer Interfaces laboratories, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
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- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, City, University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Excellence for Neural Information Processing, Center for Molecular Neurobiology (ZMNH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
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- Mobile Technology Lab, School of Economics, Innovation and Technology, University College Kristiania, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Section Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR 7289, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France
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- Department of Excellence for Neural Information Processing, Center for Molecular Neurobiology (ZMNH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
- Neural Computation Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto (TN), Italy
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Gonzalez-Burgos G, Miyamae T, Reddy N, Dawkins S, Chen C, Hill A, Enwright J, Ermentrout B, Lewis DA. Mechanisms regulating the properties of inhibition-based gamma oscillations in primate prefrontal and parietal cortices. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:7754-7770. [PMID: 36971419 PMCID: PMC10267634 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2022] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2024] Open
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In primates, the dorsolateral prefrontal (DLPFC) and posterior parietal (PPC) cortices are key nodes in the working memory network. The working memory-related gamma oscillations induced in these areas, predominantly in layer 3, exhibit higher frequency in DLPFC. Although these regional differences in oscillation frequency are likely essential for information transfer between DLPFC and PPC, the mechanisms underlying these differences remain poorly understood. We investigated, in rhesus monkey, the DLPFC and PPC layer 3 pyramidal neuron (L3PN) properties that might regulate oscillation frequency and assessed the effects of these properties simulating oscillations in computational models. We found that GABAAR-mediated synaptic inhibition synchronizes L3PNs in both areas, but analysis of GABAAR mRNA levels and inhibitory synaptic currents suggested similar mechanisms of inhibition-mediated synchrony in DLPFC and PPC. Basal dendrite spine density and AMPAR/NMDAR mRNA levels were higher in DLPFC L3PNs, whereas excitatory synaptic currents were similar between areas. Therefore, synaptically evoked excitation might be stronger in DLPFC L3PNs due to a greater quantity of synapses in basal dendrites, a main target of recurrent excitation. Simulations in computational networks showed that oscillation frequency and power increased with increasing recurrent excitation, suggesting a mechanism by which the DLPFC-PPC differences in oscillation properties are generated.
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- Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, 512 Thackeray, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, 512 Thackeray, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, 512 Thackeray, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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Mockevičius A, Šveistytė K, Griškova-Bulanova I. Individual/Peak Gamma Frequency: What Do We Know? Brain Sci 2023; 13:792. [PMID: 37239264 PMCID: PMC10216206 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13050792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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In recent years, the concept of individualized measures of electroencephalographic (EEG) activity has emerged. Gamma-band activity plays an important role in many sensory and cognitive processes. Thus, peak frequency in the gamma range has received considerable attention. However, peak or individual gamma frequency (IGF) is rarely used as a primary measure of interest; consequently, little is known about its nature and functional significance. With this review, we attempt to comprehensively overview available information on the functional properties of peak gamma frequency, addressing its relationship with certain processes and/or modulation by various factors. Here, we show that IGFs seem to be related to various endogenous and exogenous factors. Broad functional aspects that are related to IGF might point to the differences in underlying mechanisms. Therefore, research utilizing different types of stimulation for IGF estimation and covering several functional aspects in the same population is required. Moreover, IGFs span a wide range of frequencies (30-100 Hz). This could be partly due to the variability of methods used to extract the measures of IGF. In order to overcome this issue, further studies aiming at the optimization of IGF extraction would be greatly beneficial.
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- Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Centre, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio av. 7, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Holt CJ, Miller KD, Ahmadian Y. The stabilized supralinear network accounts for the contrast dependence of visual cortical gamma oscillations. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.05.11.540442. [PMID: 37214812 PMCID: PMC10197697 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.11.540442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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When stimulated, neural populations in the visual cortex exhibit fast rhythmic activity with frequencies in the gamma band (30-80 Hz). The gamma rhythm manifests as a broad resonance peak in the power-spectrum of recorded local field potentials, which exhibits various stimulus dependencies. In particular, in macaque primary visual cortex (V1), the gamma peak frequency increases with increasing stimulus contrast. Moreover, this contrast dependence is local: when contrast varies smoothly over visual space, the gamma peak frequency in each cortical column is controlled by the local contrast in that column's receptive field. No parsimonious mechanistic explanation for these contrast dependencies of V1 gamma oscillations has been proposed. The stabilized supralinear network (SSN) is a mechanistic model of cortical circuits that has accounted for a range of visual cortical response nonlinearities and contextual modulations, as well as their contrast dependence. Here, we begin by showing that a reduced SSN model without retinotopy robustly captures the contrast dependence of gamma peak frequency, and provides a mechanistic explanation for this effect based on the observed non-saturating and supralinear input-output function of V1 neurons. Given this result, the local dependence on contrast can trivially be captured in a retinotopic SSN which however lacks horizontal synaptic connections between its cortical columns. However, long-range horizontal connections in V1 are in fact strong, and underlie contextual modulation effects such as surround suppression. We thus explored whether a retinotopically organized SSN model of V1 with strong excitatory horizontal connections can exhibit both surround suppression and the local contrast dependence of gamma peak frequency. We found that retinotopic SSNs can account for both effects, but only when the horizontal excitatory projections are composed of two components with different patterns of spatial fall-off with distance: a short-range component that only targets the source column, combined with a long-range component that targets columns neighboring the source column. We thus make a specific qualitative prediction for the spatial structure of horizontal connections in macaque V1, consistent with the columnar structure of cortex.
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- Caleb J Holt
- Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Physics, University of Oregon, OR, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and Dept. of Neuroscience, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Morton B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, NY, USA
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- Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Fernandez-Ruiz A, Sirota A, Lopes-Dos-Santos V, Dupret D. Over and above frequency: Gamma oscillations as units of neural circuit operations. Neuron 2023; 111:936-953. [PMID: 37023717 PMCID: PMC7614431 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/08/2023]
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Gamma oscillations (∼30-150 Hz) are widespread correlates of neural circuit functions. These network activity patterns have been described across multiple animal species, brain structures, and behaviors, and are usually identified based on their spectral peak frequency. Yet, despite intensive investigation, whether gamma oscillations implement causal mechanisms of specific brain functions or represent a general dynamic mode of neural circuit operation remains unclear. In this perspective, we review recent advances in the study of gamma oscillations toward a deeper understanding of their cellular mechanisms, neural pathways, and functional roles. We discuss that a given gamma rhythm does not per se implement any specific cognitive function but rather constitutes an activity motif reporting the cellular substrates, communication channels, and computational operations underlying information processing in its generating brain circuit. Accordingly, we propose shifting the attention from a frequency-based to a circuit-level definition of gamma oscillations.
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- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Orekhova EV, Manyukhina VO, Galuta IA, Prokofyev AO, Goiaeva DE, Obukhova TS, Fadeev KA, Schneiderman JF, Stroganova TA. Gamma oscillations point to the role of primary visual cortex in atypical motion processing in autism. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0281531. [PMID: 36780507 PMCID: PMC9925089 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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Neurophysiological studies suggest that abnormal neural inhibition may explain a range of sensory processing differences in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In particular, the impaired ability of people with ASD to visually discriminate the motion direction of small-size objects and their reduced perceptual suppression of background-like visual motion may stem from deficient surround inhibition within the primary visual cortex (V1) and/or its atypical top-down modulation by higher-tier cortical areas. In this study, we estimate the contribution of abnormal surround inhibition to the motion-processing deficit in ASD. For this purpose, we used a putative correlate of surround inhibition-suppression of the magnetoencephalographic (MEG) gamma response (GR) caused by an increase in the drift rate of a large annular high-contrast grating. The motion direction discrimination thresholds for the gratings of different angular sizes (1° and 12°) were assessed in a separate psychophysical paradigm. The MEG data were collected in 42 boys with ASD and 37 typically developing (TD) boys aged 7-15 years. Psychophysical data were available in 33 and 34 of these participants, respectively. The results showed that the GR suppression in V1 was reduced in boys with ASD, while their ability to detect the direction of motion was compromised only in the case of small stimuli. In TD boys, the GR suppression directly correlated with perceptual suppression caused by increasing stimulus size, thus suggesting the role of the top-down modulations of V1 in surround inhibition. In ASD, weaker GR suppression was associated with the poor directional sensitivity to small stimuli, but not with perceptual suppression. These results strongly suggest that a local inhibitory deficit in V1 plays an important role in the reduction of directional sensitivity in ASD and that this perceptual deficit cannot be explained exclusively by atypical top-down modulation of V1 by higher-tier cortical areas.
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- Elena V. Orekhova
- Center for Neurocognitive Research (MEG Center), Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation
- * E-mail:
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- Center for Neurocognitive Research (MEG Center), Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation
- National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Center for Neurocognitive Research (MEG Center), Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Center for Neurocognitive Research (MEG Center), Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Center for Neurocognitive Research (MEG Center), Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Center for Neurocognitive Research (MEG Center), Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Center for Neurocognitive Research (MEG Center), Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- MedTech West and the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, The University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Center for Neurocognitive Research (MEG Center), Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Debes SR, Dragoi V. Suppressing feedback signals to visual cortex abolishes attentional modulation. Science 2023; 379:468-473. [PMID: 36730414 DOI: 10.1126/science.ade1855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Attention improves perception by enhancing the neural encoding of sensory information. A long-standing hypothesis is that cortical feedback projections carry top-down signals to influence sensory coding. However, this hypothesis has never been tested to establish causal links. We used viral tools to label feedback connections from cortical area V4 targeting early visual cortex (area V1). While monkeys performed a visual-spatial attention task, inactivating feedback axonal terminals in V1 without altering local intracortical and feedforward inputs reduced the response gain of single cells and impaired the accuracy of neural populations for encoding external stimuli. These effects are primarily manifested in the superficial layers of V1 and propagate to downstream area V4. Attention enhances sensory coding across visual cortex by specifically altering the strength of corticocortical feedback in a layer-dependent manner.
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- Samantha R Debes
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
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Veit J, Handy G, Mossing DP, Doiron B, Adesnik H. Cortical VIP neurons locally control the gain but globally control the coherence of gamma band rhythms. Neuron 2023; 111:405-417.e5. [PMID: 36384143 PMCID: PMC9898108 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.10.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Revised: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Gamma band synchronization can facilitate local and long-range neural communication. In the primary visual cortex, visual stimulus properties within a specific location determine local synchronization strength, while the match of stimulus properties between distant locations controls long-range synchronization. The neural basis for the differential control of local and global gamma band synchronization is unknown. Combining electrophysiology, optogenetics, and computational modeling, we found that VIP disinhibitory interneurons in mouse cortex linearly scale gamma power locally without changing its stimulus tuning. Conversely, they suppress long-range synchronization when two regions process non-matched stimuli, tuning gamma coherence globally. Modeling shows that like-to-like connectivity across space and specific VIP→SST inhibition capture these opposing effects. VIP neurons thus differentially impact local and global properties of gamma rhythms depending on visual stimulus statistics. They may thereby construct gamma-band filters for spatially extended but continuous image features, such as contours, facilitating the downstream generation of coherent visual percepts.
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- Julia Veit
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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- Departments of Neurobiology and Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA; Biophysics Graduate Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Departments of Neurobiology and Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA; The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Mosheiff N, Ermentrout B, Huang C. Chaotic dynamics in spatially distributed neuronal networks generate population-wide shared variability. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1010843. [PMID: 36626362 PMCID: PMC9870129 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Revised: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Neural activity in the cortex is highly variable in response to repeated stimuli. Population recordings across the cortex demonstrate that the variability of neuronal responses is shared among large groups of neurons and concentrates in a low dimensional space. However, the source of the population-wide shared variability is unknown. In this work, we analyzed the dynamical regimes of spatially distributed networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons. We found chaotic spatiotemporal dynamics in networks with similar excitatory and inhibitory projection widths, an anatomical feature of the cortex. The chaotic solutions contain broadband frequency power in rate variability and have distance-dependent and low-dimensional correlations, in agreement with experimental findings. In addition, rate chaos can be induced by globally correlated noisy inputs. These results suggest that spatiotemporal chaos in cortical networks can explain the shared variability observed in neuronal population responses.
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- Noga Mosheiff
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Prakash SS, Mayo JP, Ray S. Decoding of attentional state using local field potentials. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2022; 76:102589. [PMID: 35751949 PMCID: PMC9840850 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2022.102589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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We review recent efforts to decode visual spatial attention from different types of brain signals, such as spikes and local field potentials (LFPs). Combining signals from more electrodes improves decoding, but the pattern of improvement varies considerably depending on the signal as well as the task (for example, decoding of sensory stimulus/motor intention versus location of attention). We argue that this pattern of results conveys important information not only about the usefulness of a particular brain signal for decoding attention, but also about the spatial scale over which attention operates in the brain. The spatial scale, in turn, likely depends on the extent of underlying mechanisms such as normalization, gain control via excitation-inhibition interactions, and neuromodulatory regulation of attention.
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- Surya S. Prakash
- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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Hahn G, Kumar A, Schmidt H, Knösche TR, Deco G. Rate and oscillatory switching dynamics of a multilayer visual microcircuit model. eLife 2022; 11:77594. [PMID: 35994330 PMCID: PMC9395191 DOI: 10.7554/elife.77594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The neocortex is organized around layered microcircuits consisting of a variety of excitatory and inhibitory neuronal types which perform rate- and oscillation-based computations. Using modeling, we show that both superficial and deep layers of the primary mouse visual cortex implement two ultrasensitive and bistable switches built on mutual inhibitory connectivity motives between somatostatin, parvalbumin, and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide cells. The switches toggle pyramidal neurons between high and low firing rate states that are synchronized across layers through translaminar connectivity. Moreover, inhibited and disinhibited states are characterized by low- and high-frequency oscillations, respectively, with layer-specific differences in frequency and power which show asymmetric changes during state transitions. These findings are consistent with a number of experimental observations and embed firing rate together with oscillatory changes within a switch interpretation of the microcircuit.
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- Gerald Hahn
- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Computational Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Brain Networks Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Brain Networks Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.,School of Psychological Sciences, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Han C, Shapley R, Xing D. Gamma rhythms in the visual cortex: functions and mechanisms. Cogn Neurodyn 2022; 16:745-756. [PMID: 35847544 PMCID: PMC9279528 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-021-09767-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Revised: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Gamma-band activity, peaking around 30-100 Hz in the local field potential's power spectrum, has been found and intensively studied in many brain regions. Although gamma is thought to play a critical role in processing neural information in the brain, its cognitive functions and neural mechanisms remain unclear or debatable. Experimental studies showed that gamma rhythms are stochastic in time and vary with visual stimuli. Recent studies further showed that multiple rhythms coexist in V1 with distinct origins in different species. While all these experimental facts are a challenge for understanding the functions of gamma in the visual cortex, there are many signs of progress in computational studies. This review summarizes and discusses studies on gamma in the visual cortex from multiple perspectives and concludes that gamma rhythms are still a mystery. Combining experimental and computational studies seems the best way forward in the future.
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- Chuanliang Han
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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Lowet E, De Weerd P, Roberts MJ, Hadjipapas A. Tuning Neural Synchronization: The Role of Variable Oscillation Frequencies in Neural Circuits. Front Syst Neurosci 2022; 16:908665. [PMID: 35873098 PMCID: PMC9304548 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2022.908665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Brain oscillations emerge during sensory and cognitive processes and have been classified into different frequency bands. Yet, even within the same frequency band and between nearby brain locations, the exact frequencies of brain oscillations can differ. These frequency differences (detuning) have been largely ignored and play little role in current functional theories of brain oscillations. This contrasts with the crucial role that detuning plays in synchronization theory, as originally derived in physical systems. Here, we propose that detuning is equally important to understand synchronization in biological systems. Detuning is a critical control parameter in synchronization, which is not only important in shaping phase-locking, but also in establishing preferred phase relations between oscillators. We review recent evidence that frequency differences between brain locations are ubiquitous and essential in shaping temporal neural coordination. With the rise of powerful experimental techniques to probe brain oscillations, the contributions of exact frequency and detuning across neural circuits will become increasingly clear and will play a key part in developing a new understanding of the role of oscillations in brain function.
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- Eric Lowet
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
- *Correspondence: Eric Lowet,
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Medical School, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Center of Neuroscience and Integrative Brain Research (CENIBRE), University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Aydın S. Cross-validated Adaboost Classification of Emotion Regulation Strategies Identified by Spectral Coherence in Resting-State. Neuroinformatics 2022; 20:627-639. [PMID: 34536200 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-021-09542-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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In the present study, quantitative relations between Cognitive Emotion Regulation strategies (CERs) and EEG synchronization levels have been investigated for the first time. For this purpose, spectral coherence (COH), phase locking value and mutual information have been applied to short segments of 62-channel resting state eyes-opened EEG data collected from healthy adults who use contrasting emotion regulation strategies (frequently and rarely use of rumination&distraction, frequently and rarely use of suppression&reappraisal). In tests, the individuals are grouped depending on their self-responses to both emotion regulation questionnaire (ERQ) and cognitive ERQ. Experimental data are downloaded from publicly available data-base, LEMON. Regarding EEG electrode pairs that placed on right and left cortical regions, inter-hemispheric dependency measures are computed for non-overlapped short segments of 2 sec at 2 min duration trials. In addition to full-band EEG analysis, dependency metrics are also obtained for both alpha and beta sub-bands. The contrasting groups are discriminated from each other with respect to the corresponding features using cross-validated adaboost classifiers. High classification accuracies (CA) of 99.44% and 98.33% have been obtained through instant classification driven by full-band COH estimations. Considering regional features that provide the high CA, CERs are found to be highly relevant with associative memory functions and cognition. The new findings may indicate the close relation between neuroplasticity and cognitive skills.
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- Serap Aydın
- Biophysics Department, Medical Faculty, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
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Davis ZW, Muller L, Reynolds JH. Spontaneous Spiking Is Governed by Broadband Fluctuations. J Neurosci 2022; 42:5159-5172. [PMID: 35606140 PMCID: PMC9236292 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1899-21.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2021] [Revised: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Populations of cortical neurons generate rhythmic fluctuations in their ongoing spontaneous activity. These fluctuations can be seen in the local field potential (LFP), which reflects summed return currents from synaptic activity in the local population near a recording electrode. The LFP is spectrally broad, and many researchers view this breadth as containing many narrowband oscillatory components that may have distinct functional roles. This view is supported by the observation that the phase of narrowband oscillations is often correlated with cortical excitability and can relate to the timing of spiking activity and the fidelity of sensory evoked responses. Accordingly, researchers commonly tune in to these channels by narrowband filtering the LFP. Alternatively, neural activity may be fundamentally broadband and composed of transient, nonstationary rhythms that are difficult to approximate as oscillations. In this view, the instantaneous state of the broad ensemble relates directly to the excitability of the local population with no particular allegiance to any frequency band. To test between these alternatives, we asked whether the spiking activity of neocortical neurons in marmoset of either sex is better aligned with the phase of the LFP within narrow frequency bands or with a broadband measure. We find that the phase of broadband LFP fluctuations provides a better predictor of spike timing than the phase after filtering in narrow bands. These results challenge the view of the neocortex as a system composed of narrowband oscillators and supports a view in which neural activity fluctuations are intrinsically broadband.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Research into the dynamical state of neural populations often attributes unique significance to the state of narrowband oscillatory components. However, rhythmic fluctuations in cortical activity are nonstationary and broad spectrum. We find that the timing of spontaneous spiking activity is better captured by the state of broadband fluctuations over any latent oscillatory component. These results suggest narrowband interpretations of rhythmic population activity may be limited, and broader representations may provide higher fidelity in describing moment-to-moment fluctuations in cortical activity.
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- Zachary W Davis
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
- Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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Shirhatti V, Ravishankar P, Ray S. Gamma oscillations in primate primary visual cortex are severely attenuated by small stimulus discontinuities. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001666. [PMID: 35700175 PMCID: PMC9197048 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Gamma oscillations (30 to 80 Hz) have been hypothesized to play an important role in feature binding, based on the observation that continuous long bars induce stronger gamma in the visual cortex than bars with a small gap. Recently, many studies have shown that natural images, which have discontinuities in several low-level features, do not induce strong gamma oscillations, questioning their role in feature binding. However, the effect of different discontinuities on gamma has not been well studied. To address this, we recorded spikes and local field potential from 2 monkeys while they were shown gratings with discontinuities in 4 attributes: space, orientation, phase, or contrast. We found that while these discontinuities only had a modest effect on spiking activity, gamma power drastically reduced in all cases, suggesting that gamma could be a resonant phenomenon. An excitatory–inhibitory population model with stimulus-tuned recurrent inputs showed such resonant properties. Therefore, gamma could be a signature of excitation–inhibition balance, which gets disrupted due to discontinuities. Gamma oscillations (30-80 Hz) in visual cortex have been hypothesized to play an important role in feature binding, but this role has recently been questioned. This study shows that visual stimulus-induced gamma oscillations are highly attenuated with even small discontinuities in the stimulus. This "resonant" behaviour can be explained by a simple excitatory-inhibitory model in which discontinuities lead to a small reduction in lateral inputs.
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- Vinay Shirhatti
- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
- IISc Mathematics Initiative, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
- IISc Mathematics Initiative, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
- * E-mail:
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Ray S. Spike-Gamma Phase Relationship in the Visual Cortex. Annu Rev Vis Sci 2022; 8:361-381. [PMID: 35667158 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-vision-100419-104530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Gamma oscillations (30-70 Hz) have been hypothesized to play a role in cortical function. Most of the proposed mechanisms involve rhythmic modulation of neuronal excitability at gamma frequencies, leading to modulation of spike timing relative to the rhythm. I first show that the gamma band could be more privileged than other frequencies in observing spike-field interactions even in the absence of genuine gamma rhythmicity and discuss several biases in spike-gamma phase estimation. I then discuss the expected spike-gamma phase according to several hypotheses. Inconsistent with the phase-coding hypothesis (but not with others), the spike-gamma phase does not change with changes in stimulus intensity or attentional state, with spikes preferentially occurring 2-4 ms before the trough, but with substantial variability. However, this phase relationship is expected even when gamma is a byproduct of excitatory-inhibitory interactions. Given that gamma occurs in short bursts, I argue that the debate over the role of gamma is a matter of semantics. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Vision Science, Volume 8 is September 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Supratim Ray
- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 560012;
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Stauch BJ, Peter A, Ehrlich I, Nolte Z, Fries P. Human visual gamma for color stimuli. eLife 2022; 11:e75897. [PMID: 35532123 PMCID: PMC9122493 DOI: 10.7554/elife.75897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Strong gamma-band oscillations in primate early visual cortex can be induced by homogeneous color surfaces (Peter et al., 2019; Shirhatti and Ray, 2018). Compared to other hues, particularly strong gamma oscillations have been reported for red stimuli. However, precortical color processing and the resultant strength of input to V1 have often not been fully controlled for. Therefore, stronger responses to red might be due to differences in V1 input strength. We presented stimuli that had equal luminance and cone contrast levels in a color coordinate system based on responses of the lateral geniculate nucleus, the main input source for area V1. With these stimuli, we recorded magnetoencephalography in 30 human participants. We found gamma oscillations in early visual cortex which, contrary to previous reports, did not differ between red and green stimuli of equal L-M cone contrast. Notably, blue stimuli with contrast exclusively on the S-cone axis induced very weak gamma responses, as well as smaller event-related fields and poorer change-detection performance. The strength of human color gamma responses for stimuli on the L-M axis could be well explained by L-M cone contrast and did not show a clear red bias when L-M cone contrast was properly equalized.
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- Benjamin J Stauch
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck SocietyFrankfurtGermany
- International Max Planck Research School for Neural CircuitsFrankfurtGermany
- Brain Imaging Center, Goethe University FrankfurtFrankfurtGermany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck SocietyFrankfurtGermany
- International Max Planck Research School for Neural CircuitsFrankfurtGermany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck SocietyFrankfurtGermany
- Department of Psychology, Goethe University FrankfurtFrankfurtGermany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck SocietyFrankfurtGermany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck SocietyFrankfurtGermany
- International Max Planck Research School for Neural CircuitsFrankfurtGermany
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University NijmegenNijmegenNetherlands
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Roohi N, Valizadeh A. Role of Interaction Delays in the Synchronization of Inhibitory Networks. Neural Comput 2022; 34:1425-1447. [PMID: 35534004 DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Neural oscillations provide a means for efficient and flexible communication among different brain areas. Understanding the mechanisms of the generation of brain oscillations is crucial to determine principles of communication and information transfer in the brain circuits. It is well known that the inhibitory neurons play a major role in the generation of oscillations in the gamma range, in pure inhibitory networks, or in the networks composed of excitatory and inhibitory neurons. In this study, we explore the impact of different parameters and, in particular, the delay in the transmission of the signals between the neurons, on the dynamics of inhibitory networks. We show that increasing delay in a reasonable range increases the synchrony and stabilizes the oscillations. Unstable gamma oscillations characterized by a highly variable amplitude of oscillations can be observed in an intermediate range of delays. We show that in this range of delays, other experimentally observed phenomena such as sparse firing, variable amplitude and period, and the correlation between the instantaneous amplitude and period could be observed. The results broaden our understanding of the mechanism of the generation of the gamma oscillations in the inhibitory networks, known as the ING (interneuron-gamma) mechanism.
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- Nariman Roohi
- Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
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- Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.,School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Niavaran, Tehran, Iran
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Spyropoulos G, Saponati M, Dowdall JR, Schölvinck ML, Bosman CA, Lima B, Peter A, Onorato I, Klon-Lipok J, Roese R, Neuenschwander S, Fries P, Vinck M. Spontaneous variability in gamma dynamics described by a damped harmonic oscillator driven by noise. Nat Commun 2022; 13:2019. [PMID: 35440540 PMCID: PMC9018758 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29674-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Circuits of excitatory and inhibitory neurons generate gamma-rhythmic activity (30-80 Hz). Gamma-cycles show spontaneous variability in amplitude and duration. To investigate the mechanisms underlying this variability, we recorded local-field-potentials (LFPs) and spikes from awake macaque V1. We developed a noise-robust method to detect gamma-cycle amplitudes and durations, which showed a weak but positive correlation. This correlation, and the joint amplitude-duration distribution, is well reproduced by a noise-driven damped harmonic oscillator. This model accurately fits LFP power-spectra, is equivalent to a linear, noise-driven E-I circuit, and recapitulates two additional features of gamma: (1) Amplitude-duration correlations decrease with oscillation strength; (2) amplitudes and durations exhibit strong and weak autocorrelations, respectively, depending on oscillation strength. Finally, longer gamma-cycles are associated with stronger spike-synchrony, but lower spike-rates in both (putative) excitatory and inhibitory neurons. In sum, V1 gamma-dynamics are well described by the simplest possible model of gamma: A damped harmonic oscillator driven by noise.
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- Georgios Spyropoulos
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany.
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 EN, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Center for Neuroscience, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
- Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
- Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, 59056-450, Natal, Brazil
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany.
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 EN, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt, Germany.
- Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroinformatics, Radboud University, 6525 EN, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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Uran C, Peter A, Lazar A, Barnes W, Klon-Lipok J, Shapcott KA, Roese R, Fries P, Singer W, Vinck M. Predictive coding of natural images by V1 firing rates and rhythmic synchronization. Neuron 2022; 110:1240-1257.e8. [PMID: 35120628 PMCID: PMC8992798 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Revised: 11/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Predictive coding is an important candidate theory of self-supervised learning in the brain. Its central idea is that sensory responses result from comparisons between bottom-up inputs and contextual predictions, a process in which rates and synchronization may play distinct roles. We recorded from awake macaque V1 and developed a technique to quantify stimulus predictability for natural images based on self-supervised, generative neural networks. We find that neuronal firing rates were mainly modulated by the contextual predictability of higher-order image features, which correlated strongly with human perceptual similarity judgments. By contrast, V1 gamma (γ)-synchronization increased monotonically with the contextual predictability of low-level image features and emerged exclusively for larger stimuli. Consequently, γ-synchronization was induced by natural images that are highly compressible and low-dimensional. Natural stimuli with low predictability induced prominent, late-onset beta (β)-synchronization, likely reflecting cortical feedback. Our findings reveal distinct roles of synchronization and firing rates in the predictive coding of natural images.
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- Cem Uran
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany; Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroinformatics, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany; Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Department of Biophysics, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany; Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany; Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroinformatics, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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Murty DVPS, Ray S. Stimulus-induced Robust Narrow-band Gamma Oscillations in Human EEG Using Cartesian Gratings. Bio Protoc 2022; 12:e4379. [PMID: 35530517 PMCID: PMC9018439 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.4379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2022] [Revised: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Stimulus-induced narrow-band gamma oscillations (20-70 Hz) are induced in the visual areas of the brain when particular visual stimuli, such as bars, gratings, or full-screen hue, are shown to the subject. Such oscillations are modulated by higher cognitive functions, like attention, and working memory, and have been shown to be abnormal in certain neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, autism, and Alzheimer's disease. However, although electroencephalogram (EEG) remains one of the most non-invasive, inexpensive, and accessible methods to record brain signals, some studies have failed to observe discernable gamma oscillations in human EEG. In this manuscript, we have described in detail a protocol to elicit robust gamma oscillations in human EEG. We believe that our protocol could help in developing non-invasive gamma-based biomarkers in human EEG, for the early detection of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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Krishnakumaran R, Raees M, Ray S. Shape analysis of gamma rhythm supports a superlinear inhibitory regime in an inhibition-stabilized network. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1009886. [PMID: 35157699 PMCID: PMC8880865 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2021] [Revised: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Visual inspection of stimulus-induced gamma oscillations (30–70 Hz) often reveals a non-sinusoidal shape. Such distortions are a hallmark of non-linear systems and are also observed in mean-field models of gamma oscillations. A thorough characterization of the shape of the gamma cycle can therefore provide additional constraints on the operating regime of such models. However, the gamma waveform has not been quantitatively characterized, partially because the first harmonic of gamma, which arises because of the non-sinusoidal nature of the signal, is typically weak and gets masked due to a broadband increase in power related to spiking. To address this, we recorded local field potential (LFP) from the primary visual cortex (V1) of two awake female macaques while presenting full-field gratings or iso-luminant chromatic hues that produced huge gamma oscillations with prominent peaks at harmonic frequencies in the power spectra. We found that gamma and its first harmonic always maintained a specific phase relationship, resulting in a distinctive shape with a sharp trough and a shallow peak. Interestingly, a Wilson-Cowan (WC) model operating in an inhibition stabilized mode could replicate this shape, but only when the inhibitory population operated in the super-linear regime, as predicted recently. However, another recently developed model of gamma that operates in a linear regime driven by stochastic noise failed to produce salient harmonics or the observed shape. Our results impose additional constraints on models that generate gamma oscillations and their operating regimes. Gamma rhythm is not sinusoidal. Understanding these distortions could provide clues about the cortical network that generates the rhythm. Here, we use harmonic phase analysis to describe these waveforms quantitatively and show that gamma rhythm recorded from the primary visual cortex of macaques has a signature arch shaped waveform, with a sharp trough and a shallow peak, when visual stimuli such as full-screen plain hues and achromatic gratings are presented. This arch shaped waveform is observed over a wide range of stimuli, despite the variation in power and frequency of the rhythm. We then compare two population rate models that have been used to accurately describe the stimulus dependencies of gamma rhythm and show that this arch shaped waveform is obtained only in one of those models. Further, the waveform shape is dependent on the operating domain of the system. Therefore, shape analysis provides additional constraints on cortical models and their operating regimes.
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- R Krishnakumaran
- IISc Mathematics Initiative, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- IISc Mathematics Initiative, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- * E-mail:
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Barzegaran E, Plomp G. Four concurrent feedforward and feedback networks with different roles in the visual cortical hierarchy. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001534. [PMID: 35143472 PMCID: PMC8865670 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Visual stimuli evoke fast-evolving activity patterns that are distributed across multiple cortical areas. These areas are hierarchically structured, as indicated by their anatomical projections, but how large-scale feedforward and feedback streams are functionally organized in this system remains an important missing clue to understanding cortical processing. By analyzing visual evoked responses in laminar recordings from 6 cortical areas in awake mice, we uncovered a dominant feedforward network with scale-free interactions in the time domain. In addition, we established the simultaneous presence of a gamma band feedforward and 2 low frequency feedback networks, each with a distinct laminar functional connectivity profile, frequency spectrum, temporal dynamics, and functional hierarchy. We could identify distinct roles for each of these 4 processing streams, by leveraging stimulus contrast effects, analyzing receptive field (RF) convergency along functional interactions, and determining relationships to spiking activity. Our results support a dynamic dual counterstream view of hierarchical processing and provide new insight into how separate functional streams can simultaneously and dynamically support visual processes. Visual stimuli evoke fast-evolving activity patterns that are distributed across multiple cortical areas, but how large-scale feedforward and feedback streams are functionally organized in this system remains unclear. Visual evoked responses in laminar recordings from six cortical areas in awake mice reveal how layers and rhythms dynamically orchestrate functional streams in vision.
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- Elham Barzegaran
- Perceptual Networks Group, Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
- * E-mail: (EB); (GP)
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- Perceptual Networks Group, Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
- * E-mail: (EB); (GP)
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Li Y, Bosking W, Beauchamp MS, Sheth SA, Yoshor D, Bartoli E, Foster BL. Biased Orientation and Color Tuning of the Human Visual Gamma Rhythm. J Neurosci 2022; 42:1054-1067. [PMID: 34965979 PMCID: PMC8824502 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1085-21.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2021] [Revised: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Narrowband γ oscillations (NBG: ∼20-60 Hz) in visual cortex reflect rhythmic fluctuations in population activity generated by underlying circuits tuned for stimulus location, orientation, and color. A variety of theories posit a specific role for NBG in encoding and communicating this information within visual cortex. However, recent findings suggest a more nuanced role for NBG, given its dependence on certain stimulus feature configurations, such as coherent-oriented edges and specific hues. Motivated by these factors, we sought to quantify the independent and joint tuning properties of NBG to oriented and color stimuli using intracranial recordings from the human visual cortex (male and female). NBG was shown to display a cardinal orientation bias (horizontal) and also an end- and mid-spectral color bias (red/blue and green). When jointly probed, the cardinal bias for orientation was attenuated and an end-spectral preference for red and blue predominated. This loss of mid-spectral tuning occurred even for recording sites showing large responses to uniform green stimuli. Our results demonstrate the close, yet complex, link between the population dynamics driving NBG oscillations and known feature selectivity biases for orientation and color within visual cortex. Such a bias in stimulus tuning imposes new constraints on the functional significance of the visual γ rhythm. More generally, these biases in population electrophysiology will need to be considered in experiments using orientation or color features to examine the role of visual cortex in other domains, such as working memory and decision-making.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Oscillations in electrophysiological activity occur in visual cortex in response to stimuli that strongly drive the orientation or color selectivity of visual neurons. The significance of this induced "γ rhythm" to brain function remains unclear. Answering this question requires understanding how and why some stimuli can reliably generate oscillatory γ activity while others do not. We examined how different orientations and colors independently and jointly modulate γ oscillations in the human brain. Our data show that γ oscillations are greatest for certain orientations and colors that reflect known response biases in visual cortex. Such findings complicate the functional significance of γ oscillations but open new avenues for linking circuits to population dynamics in visual cortex.
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- Ye Li
- Department of Neurosurgery
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
| | - Sameer A Sheth
- Department of Neurosurgery
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
| | - Daniel Yoshor
- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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