10 Jun 2013
June 10, 2013

Beta coherence within ventromedial prefrontal cortex precedes affective value choices

Neuroscience

More evidence for a role for beta coherence in cognition.
Lipsman et al find that an increase in beta coherence in human VM prefrontal cortex just before humans subjectively evaluated faces as “sad” but not before “happy” judgments, especially true when the faces were more ambiguous and thus more difficult to judge.

Miller Lab work on beta coherence and cognition:

  • Miller, E.K. and Buschman, T.J. (2013) Cortical circuits for the control of attention.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology.  23:216–222  View PDF »
  • Buschman, T.J., Denovellis, E.L., Diogo, C., Bullock, D. and Miller, E.K. (2012) Synchronous oscillatory neural ensembles for rules in the prefrontal cortex. Neuron, 76: 838-846.  View PDF
  • Buschman, T.J. and Miller, E.K. (2009) Serial, covert, shifts of attention during visual search are reflected by the frontal eye fields and correlated with population oscillations. Neuron, 63: 386-396. View PDF »
  • Buschman, T.J. and Miller, E.K. (2007) Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices. Science. 315: 1860-1862  View PDF »
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