Abstract
Using intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) in patients undergoing diagnostic workup for epilepsy, we show that during reading, phase coherent high-gamma activity emerges between spatially distant regions of proven involvement in vocalization. Using the novel metric of “phase-dependent power-causal correlations”, causal interactions were shown to be maximal at high-gamma frequencies, and displayed stronger correlations to power fluctuations near the optimal time delay, with this delay potentially accounted for by axonal conduction. We conclude that high-gamma activity may represents propagated, directed, large-scale integration between task related regions of the human brain.
Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
Copyright
The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.