EEG patterns during 'cognitive' tasks. II. Analysis of controlled tasks
| Autor: | G.M Zeitlin, Enoch Callaway, Robert E. Schaffer, J C Doyle, Alan Gevins |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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Adult
Male Elementary cognitive task Electroencephalography Stimulus (physiology) Lateralization of brain function Mental rotation Pattern Recognition Automated Cognition medicine Reaction Time Humans Theta Rhythm Cerebral Cortex medicine.diagnostic_test General Neuroscience Eye movement Alpha Rhythm Pattern Recognition Visual Word recognition Female Neurology (clinical) Psychology Beta Rhythm Analog-Digital Conversion Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology. 47(6) |
| ISSN: | 0013-4694 |
| Popis: | This experiment was designed to distinguish possible EEG correlates of the cognitive components of tasks from EEG patterns associated with stimulus characteristics, limb and eye movements, and performance-related factors such as subjects' ability and effort. Thirty-two right-handed adults each performed 30 trials, lasting 6–15 sec each, of four simplified, controlled tasks: mental rotation of geometric forms, serial addition of a column of signed digits, substitution of letters with subsequent word recognition and visual fixation. The first three tasks could not be differentiated from each other. Each of these tasks could be differentiated from visual fixation by approximately 10% generalized reductions in alpha and beta band intensities, and slight increases in theta band intensities frontally and occipitally. We conclude that the EEG patterns which differentiated the complex tasks described in Part I were due to inter-task differences in stimulus characteristics, efferent activities and/or performance-related factors, rather than to cognitive differences. With these controls, no evidence for lateralization of different types of cognitive activity was found in the EEG. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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