Causal relationships between frequency bands of extracellular signals in visual cortex revealed by an information theoretic analysis |
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Authors: | Michel Besserve Bernhard Schölkopf Nikos K Logothetis Stefano Panzeri |
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Institution: | (1) Max Plack Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany;(2) Division of Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, United Kingdom;(3) Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy |
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Abstract: | Characterizing how different cortical rhythms interact and how their interaction changes with sensory stimulation is important
to gather insights into how these rhythms are generated and what sensory function they may play. Concepts from information
theory, such as Transfer Entropy (TE), offer principled ways to quantify the amount of causation between different frequency
bands of the signal recorded from extracellular electrodes; yet these techniques are hard to apply to real data. To address
the above issues, in this study we develop a method to compute fast and reliably the amount of TE from experimental time series
of extracellular potentials. The method consisted in adapting efficiently the calculation of TE to analog signals and in providing
appropriate sampling bias corrections. We then used this method to quantify the strength and significance of causal interaction
between frequency bands of field potentials and spikes recorded from primary visual cortex of anaesthetized macaques, both
during spontaneous activity and during binocular presentation of naturalistic color movies. Causal interactions between different
frequency bands were prominent when considering the signals at a fine (ms) temporal resolution, and happened with a very short
(ms-scale) delay. The interactions were much less prominent and significant at coarser temporal resolutions. At high temporal
resolution, we found strong bidirectional causal interactions between gamma-band (40–100 Hz) and slower field potentials when
considering signals recorded within a distance of 2 mm. The interactions involving gamma bands signals were stronger during
movie presentation than in absence of stimuli, suggesting a strong role of the gamma cycle in processing naturalistic stimuli.
Moreover, the phase of gamma oscillations was playing a stronger role than their amplitude in increasing causations with slower
field potentials and spikes during stimulation. The dominant direction of causality was mainly found in the direction from
MUA or gamma frequency band signals to lower frequency signals, suggesting that hierarchical correlations between lower and
higher frequency cortical rhythms are originated by the faster rhythms. |
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