Rapid, high-frequency, and theta-coupled gamma oscillations in the inferior occipital gyrus during face processing》.pdf

c o r t e x 6 0 ( 2 0 1 4 ) 5 2 e6 8 Available online at ScienceDirect Journal homepage: /locate/cortex Special issue: Research report Rapid, high-frequency, and theta-coupled gamma oscillations in the inferior occipital gyrus during face processing a,b, ,1 a,1 c Wataru Sato * , Takanori Kochiyama , Shota Uono , Kazumi Matsuda d, Keiko Usui d, Yushi Inoue d and Motomi Toichi b,c a The Hakubi Project, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan b The Organization for Promoting Research in Developmental Disorders, Japan c Faculty of Human Health Science, Kyoto University, Japan d National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Japan a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Neuroimaging studies have found greater activation in the inferior occipital gyrus (IOG), or Received 1 June 2013 occipital face area, in response to faces relative to non-facial stimuli. However, the tem- Reviewed 14 October 2013. poral, frequency, and functional profiles of IOG activity during face processing remain Revised 15 January 2014 unclear. Here, this issue was investigated by recording intracranial field potentials in the Accepted 26 February 2014 IOG during the presentation of faces, mosaics, and houses in upright and inverted orien- Published online 19 March 2014 tations. Timeefrequency statistical parametric mapping analyses revealed greater gamma-