Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2010 Apr;14(4):162-71. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.01.005. Epub 2010 Feb 25.
Electrocorticographic brain recordings in patients with surgically implanted electrodes have recently emerged as a powerful tool for examining the neural basis of human cognition. These recordings measure the electrical activity of the brain directly, and thus provide data with higher temporal and spatial resolution than other human neuroimaging techniques. Here we review recent research in this area and in particular we explain how electrocorticographic recordings have provided insight into the neural basis of human working memory, episodic memory, language, and spatial cognition. In some cases this research has identified patterns of human brain activity that were unexpected on the basis of studies in animals.
最近，对植入手术电极的患者进行脑电记录已经成为研究人类认知神经基础的有力工具。这些记录直接测量大脑的电活动，因此与其他人类神经影像学技术相比，提供了更高时间和空间分辨率的数据。在这里，我们综述了这一领域的最新研究，特别是解释了脑电记录如何为人类工作记忆、情景记忆、语言和空间认知的神经基础提供了深入了解。在某些情况下，这些研究确定了人类大脑活动模式，这些模式与动物研究的结果出乎意料。
