Beta- and gamma-frequency coupling between olfactory and motor brain regions prior to skilled, olfactory-driven reaching
- 2 February 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Experimental Brain Research
- Vol. 180 (2) , 217-235
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-007-0850-2
Abstract
A major question in neuroscience concerns how widely separated brain regions coordinate their activity to produce unitary cognitive states or motor actions. To investigate this question, we employed multisite, multielectrode recording in rats to study how olfactory and motor circuits are coupled prior to the execution of an olfactory-driven, GO/NO-GO variant of a skilled, rapidly executed (∼350–600 ms) reaching task. During task performance, we recorded multi-single units and local field potentials (LFPs) simultaneously from the rats’ olfactory cortex (specifically, the posterior piriform cortex) and from cortical and subcortical motor sites (the caudal forepaw M1, and the magnocellular red nucleus, respectively). Analyses on multi-single units across areas revealed an increase in beta-frequency spiking (12–30 Hz) during a ∼100 ms window surrounding the Final Sniff of the GO cue before lifting the arm (the “Sniff-GO window”) that was seldom seen when animals sniffed the NO-GO cue. Also during the Sniff-GO window, LFPs displayed a striking increase in beta, low-gamma, and high-gamma energy (12–30, 30–50, and 50–100 Hz, respectively), and oscillations in the high gamma band appeared to be coherent across the recorded sites. These results indicate that transient, multispectral coherence across cortical and subcortical brain sites is part of the coordination process prior to sensory-guided movement initiation.Keywords
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