Gamma oscillations and object processing in the infant brain

TY - JOUR

T1 - Gamma oscillations and object processing in the infant brain

AU - Csibra, G

AU - Davis, G

AU - Spratling, M W

AU - Johnson, M H

PY - 2000/11/24

Y1 - 2000/11/24

N2 - An enduring controversy in neuroscience concerns how the brain "binds" together separately coded stimulus features to form unitary representations of objects. Recent evidence has indicated a close link between this binding process and 40-hertz (gamma-band) oscillations generated by localized neural circuits. In a separate line of research, the ability of young infants to perceive objects as unitary and bounded has become a central focus for debates about the mechanisms of perceptual development. Here we demonstrate that binding-related 40-hertz oscillations are evident in the infant brain around 8 months of age, which is the same age at which behavioral and event-related potential evidence indicates the onset of perceptual binding of spatially separated static visual features

AB - An enduring controversy in neuroscience concerns how the brain "binds" together separately coded stimulus features to form unitary representations of objects. Recent evidence has indicated a close link between this binding process and 40-hertz (gamma-band) oscillations generated by localized neural circuits. In a separate line of research, the ability of young infants to perceive objects as unitary and bounded has become a central focus for debates about the mechanisms of perceptual development. Here we demonstrate that binding-related 40-hertz oscillations are evident in the infant brain around 8 months of age, which is the same age at which behavioral and event-related potential evidence indicates the onset of perceptual binding of spatially separated static visual features

U2 - 10.1126/science.290.5496.1582

DO - 10.1126/science.290.5496.1582

M3 - Article

SN - 1095-9203

VL - 290

SP - 1582

EP - 1585

JO - Science

JF - Science

IS - 5496

ER -