Time courses of attentional modulation in neural amplification and synchronization measured with steady-state visual-evoked potentials
| Autor: | Kazumichi Matsumiya, Satoshi Shioiri, Ichiro Kuriki, Yoshiyuki Kashiwase |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Time Factors genetic structures Cognitive Neuroscience Visual evoked potentials Stimulus (physiology) Neuropsychological Tests Signal-To-Noise Ratio Young Adult Attentional modulation Behavioral dynamics medicine Humans Attention Communication Models Statistical medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Flicker Electroencephalography Electrooculography Amplitude Time course Visual Perception Evoked Potentials Visual Female Psychology business Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Journal of cognitive neuroscience. 24(8) |
| ISSN: | 1530-8898 |
| Popis: | Endogenous attention modulates the amplitude and phase coherence of steady-state visual-evoked potentials (SSVEPs). In efforts to decipher the neural mechanisms of attentional modulation, we compared the time course of attentional modulation of SSVEP amplitude (thought to reflect the magnitude of neural population activity) and phase coherence (thought to reflect neural response synchronization). We presented two stimuli flickering at different frequencies in the left and right visual hemifields and asked observers to shift their attention to either stimulus. Our results demonstrated that attention increased SSVEP phase coherence earlier than it increased SSVEP amplitude, with a positive correlation between the attentional modulations of SSVEP phase coherence and amplitude. Furthermore, the behavioral dynamics of attention shifts were more closely associated with changes in phase coherence than with changes in amplitude. These results are consistent with the possibility that attention increases neural response synchronization, which in turn leads to increased neural population activity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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