Region-specific modulations in oscillatory alpha activity serve to facilitate processing in the visual and auditory modalities
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There have been a number of studies suggesting that oscillatory alpha activity (~10 Hz) plays a pivotal role in attention by gating information flow to relevant sensory regions. The vast majority of these studies have looked at shifts of attention in the spatial domain and only in a single modality (often visual or sensorimotor). In the current magnetoencephalography (MEG) study, we investigated the role of alpha activity in the suppression of a distracting modality stream. We used a cross-modal attention task where visual cues indicated whether participants had to judge a visual orientation or discriminate the auditory pitch of an upcoming target. The visual and auditory targets were presented either simultaneously or alone, allowing us to behaviorally gauge the "cost" of having a distractor present in each modality. We found that the preparation for visual discrimination (relative to pitch discrimination) resulted in a decrease of alpha power (9-11 Hz) in the early visual cortex, with a concomitant increase in alpha/beta power (14-16 Hz) in the supramarginal gyrus, a region suggested to play a vital role in short-term storage of pitch information (Gaab et al., 2003). On a trial-by-trial basis, alpha power over the visual areas was significantly correlated with increased visual discrimination times, whereas alpha power over the precuneus and right superior temporal gyrus was correlated with increased auditory discrimination times. However, these correlations were only significant when the targets were paired with distractors. Our work adds to increasing evidence that the top-down (i.e. attentional) modulation of alpha activity is a mechanism by which stimulus processing can be gated within the cortex. Here, we find that this phenomenon is not restricted to the domain of spatial attention and can be generalized to other sensory modalities than vision.
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- Authors
- Mazaheri, A., van Schouwenburg, M. R., Dimitrijevic, A., Denys, D., Cools, R., & Jensen, O.
- Affiliations
- Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (US)
- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NL)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Mazaheri, Ali
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 87
- Pages
- 356-362
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2156372964
- Cited by
- 234
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 10
- FWCI
- 7.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Pure Amsterdam UMC (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- KNAW research portal (Royal Academy of Art and Sciences (KNAW)) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- alpha oscillations, cross-modal attention, distractor suppression, visual discrimination, early visual cortex, supramarginal gyrus, precuneus, superior temporal gyrus, sensory gating, attentional cost
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Alpha Rhythm, Attention, Auditory Perception, Brain, Cues, Female, Humans, Male, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Visual Perception, Magnetoencephalography, Young Adult
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