Omissions of Auditory Stimuli May Activate Frontal Cortex
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 1 (5) , 524-528
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.1989.tb00359.x
Abstract
We measured, with a 7 channel SQUID gradiometer, cerebral magnetic responses, time-locked to unpredictable and infrequent stimulus omissions (10% of stimuli) in an otherwise regular sequence of short tones, repeated once every 510 ms. In 10 out of 12 subjects broad responses with multiple peaks and with wide interindividual variability were detected. Attention clearly increased the observed signals. The magnetic field patterns evoked by stimulus omissions could be explained by single current dipoles, whose locations agree with activation of the posterolateral frontal cortex.Keywords
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