Multisensory processing and oscillatory gamma responses: effects of spatial selective attention.

  • Daniel Senkowski
  • Durk Talsma
  • Christoph S Herrmann
  • Marty G Woldorff

Abstract

Here we describe an EEG study investigating the interactions between multisensory (audio-visual) integration and spatial attention, using oscillatory gamma-band responses (GBRs). The results include a comparison with previously reported event-related potential (ERP) findings from the same paradigm. Unisensory-auditory (A), unisensory-visual (V), and multisensory (AV) stimuli were presented to the left and right hemispaces while subjects attended to a designated side to detect deviant target stimuli in either sensory modality. For attended multisensory stimuli we observed larger evoked GBRs approximately 40-50 ms post-stimulus over medial-frontal brain areas compared with those same multisensory stimuli when unattended. Further analysis indicated that the integration effect and its attentional enhancement may be caused in part by a stimulus-triggered phase resetting of ongoing gamma-band responses. Interestingly, no such early interaction effects (

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number3-4
ISSN0014-4819
Publication statusPublished - 2005
pubmed 16151775