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ArticleCognitive neurodynamics2024

Temporal-spatial deciphering mental subtraction in the human brain.

Na Clara Pan, Chengtian Zhao, Jialin Du, Qilin Zhou, Cuiping Xu, Chunyan Liu, Tao Yu, Dan Zhang, Yuping Wang

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Article in Cognitive neurodynamics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Na Clara PanDepartment of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 45, Changchun Street, Xicheng District, 100053 Beijing, China.
Chengtian ZhaoDepartment of Neurology, Aviation General Hospital, Courtyard 3, AnwaiBeiyuan, Chaoyang District, 100012 Beijing, China.
Jialin DuDepartment of Pharmacy Phase I Clinical Trial Center, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 45, Changchun Street, Xicheng District, 100053 Beijing, China.
Qilin ZhouDepartment of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 45, Changchun Street, Xicheng District, 100053 Beijing, China.
Cuiping XuBeijing Institute of Functional Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 45, Changchun Street, Xicheng District, 100053 Beijing, China.
Chunyan LiuDepartment of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 45, Changchun Street, Xicheng District, 100053 Beijing, China.
Tao YuBeijing Institute of Functional Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 45, Changchun Street, Xicheng District, 100053 Beijing, China.
Dan ZhangDepartment of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, 100084 Beijing, China.
Yuping WangDepartment of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 45, Changchun Street, Xicheng District, 100053 Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6482-9710

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Abstract

Mental subtraction, involving numerical processing and operation, requires a complex interplay among several brain regions. Diverse studies have utilized scalp electroencephalograph, electrocorticogram, or functional magnetic resonance imaging to resolve the structure pattern and functional activity during subtraction operation. However, a high resolution of the spatial-temporal understanding of the neural mechanisms involved in mental subtraction is unavailable. Thus, this study obtained intracranial stereoelectroencephalography recordings from 20 patients with pharmacologically resistant epilepsy. Specifically, two sample-delayed mismatch paradigms of numeric comparison and subtracting results comparison were used to help reveal the time frame of mental subtraction. The brain sub-regions were chronologically screened using the stereoelectroencephalography recording for mental subtraction. The results indicated that the anterior cortex, containing the frontal, insular, and parahippocampous, worked for preparing for mental subtraction; moreover, the posterior cortex, such as parietal, occipital, limbic, and temporal regions, cooperated during subtraction. Especially, the gamma band activities in core regions within the parietal-cingulate-temporal cortices mediated the critical mental subtraction. Overall, this research is the first to describe the spatiotemporal activities underlying mental subtraction in the human brain. It provides a comprehensive insight into the cognitive control activity underlying mental arithmetic. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11571-023-09937-z.

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Cognitive controlElectrophysiologyMental arithmeticMismatch detection

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