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J Neurophysiol 94: 479-490, 2005. First published February 9, 2005; doi:10.1152/jn.00919.2004
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LFP Power Spectra in V1 Cortex: The Graded Effect of Stimulus Contrast

J. Andrew Henrie and Robert Shapley

Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York

Submitted 3 September 2004; accepted in final form 7 February 2005

We recorded local field potentials (LFPs) and single-unit activity simultaneously in the macaque primary visual cortex (V1) and studied their responses to drifting sinusoidal gratings that were chosen to be "optimal" for the single units. Over all stimulus conditions, the LFP spectra have much greater power in the low-frequency band (≤10 Hz) than higher frequencies and can be described as "1/f." Analysis of the total power limited to the low, gamma (25–90 Hz), or broad (8–240 Hz) frequency bands of the LFP as a function of stimulus contrast indicates that the LFP power gradually increases with stimulus strength across a wide band in a manner roughly comparable to the increase in the simultaneously recorded spike activity. However, the low-frequency band power remains approximately constant across all stimulus contrasts. More specifically the gamma-band LFP power increases differentially more with respect to baseline than either higher or lower bands as stimulus contrast increases. At the highest stimulus contrasts, we report as others have previously, that the power spectrum of the LFP typically contains an obvious peak in the gamma-frequency band. The gamma-band peak emerges from the overall broadband enhancement in LFP power at stimulus contrasts where most single units' responses have begun to saturate. The temporal/spectral structures of the LFP located in the gamma band—which become most evident at the highest contrasts—provide additional constraints on potential mechanisms underlying the stimulus response properties of spiking neurons in V1.

Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: J. A. Henrie, Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, Rm 809, New York, NY 10003 (E-mail: jah{at}cns.nyu.edu)




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