Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Theta and beta synchrony coordinate frontal eye fields and anterior cingulate cortex during sensorimotor mapping

  • Sahand Babapoor-Farrokhran,
  • Martin Vinck,
  • Thilo Womelsdorf,
  • Stefan Everling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13967
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Frontal eye fields (FEF) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) are coactivated during cognitive tasks, but the precise format of their interaction is not known. Here the authors show that phase coupling between ACC -FEF in theta and beta frequency bands better predicts behavioural performance.