Cooperative dynamics in auditory brain response
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 58 (5), 6359-6367
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.58.6359
Abstract
Simultaneous estimates of activity in the left and right auditory cortex of five normal human subjects were extracted from multichannel magnetoencephalography recordings. Left, right, and binaural stimulations were used, in separate runs, for each subject. The resulting time series of left and right auditory cortex activity were analyzed using the concept of mutual information. The analysis constitutes an objective method to address the nature of interhemispheric correlations in response to auditory stimulations. The results provide clear evidence of the occurrence of such correlations mediated by a direct information transport, with clear laterality effects: as a rule, the contralateral hemisphere leads by 10–20 ms, as can be seen in the average signal. The strength of the interhemispheric coupling, which cannot be extracted from the average data, is found to be highly variable from subject to subject, but remarkably stable for each subject.Keywords
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