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Behavioural cues are associated with modulations of synchronous oscillations in the human subthalamic nucleus.
Full Abstract
The speed with which one reacts to an imperative signal depends on the extent to which preceding cues predict that command. When reliable warning cues are available, the processing of the imperative stimulus can be favoured and responses partially pre-prepared, leading to shorter reaction times. Here we seek evidence for involvement of the human basal ganglia in the exploitation of behaviourally relevant predictive cues. To this end, local field potentials (LFPs) were recorded in the region of the subthalamic nuclei of parkinsonian patients during the performance of a pre-cued reaction task in which the cue either predicted or failed to predict the demands of the imperative signal. We demonstrate that LFP activity in the beta frequency band ( approximately 20 Hz) is modulated by the behavioural relevance of the external cue. The findings suggest that, first, the subthalamic nucleus is involved in mediating or facilitating the response advantage derived from predictive cues in humans and, secondly, variations in synchronous neuronal activity in the beta band may contribute to this function in the subthalamic nucleus.
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Author information
Author/s: Williams, David (D); Kühn, Andrea (A); Kupsch, Andreas (A); Tijssen, Marina (M); van Bruggen, Gerard (G); Speelman, Hans (H); Hotton, Gary (G); Yarrow, Kielan (K); Brown, Peter (P);
Affiliation: Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WCIN 3BG, UK.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Brain : a journal of neurology (Brain), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Sep; vol 126 (issue Pt 9) : pp 1975-85
Dates: Created 2003/08/25; Completed 2003/10/24; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12847073, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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