Paradoxical scalp lateralization of the P100 cognitive somatic potential in humans: A magnetic field study

In somatic selective attention, electrical brain mapping disclosed a P100 cognitive electrogenesis with a scalp field paradoxically lateralized ipsilaterally to the target finger stimulus. We used 64 sensors magnetoencephalography (MEG) and source localization software in six normal humans to identi...

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Published in:Neuroscience letters 2005-12, Vol.391 (1), p.68-70
Main Authors: Tomberg, Claude, Weinberg, Hal, Vrba, Jiri, Tcheung, Teresa
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biological and medical sciences
Brain mapping
Brain Mapping - methods
Cognition - physiology
Evoked Potentials, Motor - physiology
Female
Functional Laterality - physiology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human cognitive brain potentials
Humans
Magnetoencephalography - methods
Male
MEG dipole
Parietal Lobe - physiology
Scalp - physiology
Selective attention
Somatic P100
Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs
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Summary:In somatic selective attention, electrical brain mapping disclosed a P100 cognitive electrogenesis with a scalp field paradoxically lateralized ipsilaterally to the target finger stimulus. We used 64 sensors magnetoencephalography (MEG) and source localization software in six normal humans to identify the P100 neural generator. Calculated dipole sources for P100 were iteratively compared with the recorded MEG data. The equivalent dipole at somatic P100 latency was located in the parietal lobe contralateral to the finger stimulus and had an oblique positive gradient pointing towards the ipsilateral side, thus explaining the paradoxical positivity in electrical brain mapping. It is suggested that the somatic P100 is generated in parietal area 7b which indeed appears to be specialized for cognitive processing within the somatic modality rather than for multimodal association.
ISSN:0304-3940
1872-7972
DOI:10.1016/j.neulet.2005.08.035