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Electrocortical Rhythms in the 40 Hz Band in Cat: In Search of Their Behavioural Correlates

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Temporal Coding in the Brain

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In cat, electrobiologieal focal rhythms in the 40 Hz frequency band occur in at least three cortical areas, motor cortex, parietal area 5 a and visual areas 17/18. Concentrating here on the parietal subset of 40 Hz (designated as β), three sets of data are considered: the functional correlates of the β rhythms, showing their close concomitance with focused attention of the animal on a target; the close participation of a thalamic zone, called POm (posterior group pars medialis), which contains cells firing at the β frequency; and the modulatory action of the dopaminergic zone of the ventral tegmental area. These data tend to link together the behavioural correlates of these rhythms, their underlying neurophysiological mechanisms and a brainstem neurochemical system which modulates both the attentive performance and its electrocortical correlates.

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  1. Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    G. Buzsáki Ph. D.

  2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    R. Llinás Ph.D.

  3. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstr. 46, D-60528, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    W. Singer Ph.D.

  4. Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l’Action, Collège de France-CNRS, 15, rue de l’Ecole de Medecine, F-75270, Paris Cedex 06, France

    A. Berthoz Ph. D.

  5. Fondation IPSEN, 24, rue Erlanger, F-75016, Paris, France

    Y. Christen Ph. D.

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Rougeul-Buser, A. (1994). Electrocortical Rhythms in the 40 Hz Band in Cat: In Search of Their Behavioural Correlates. In: Buzsáki, G., Llinás, R., Singer, W., Berthoz, A., Christen, Y. (eds) Temporal Coding in the Brain. Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85148-3_6

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