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Authors: Baranov-Krylov I.N.¹; Shuvaev V.T.¹; Berlov D.N.¹

Source: Human Physiology, Volume 29, Number 2, March 2003 , pp. 136-142(7)

Publisher: MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica

Abstract:

Evoked potentials (EPs) in the parietal and temporal leads were recorded in 14 young subjects in response to successively administered right- and left-side simple visual symbols, squares and circles, during passive viewing and reactions to randomly presented target stimuli. Depending on task conditions and context, the stimuli were divided into four groups: (1) passively perceived stimuli, (2) irrelevant stimuli administered on the side opposite to the target, (3) irrelevant stimuli on the side of the target, and (4) target stimuli. The EPs were averaged over the groups. With an increase in the demands of attention from the first to the fourth groups of stimuli, a linear increase in activation, estimated by the total amplitude of the N1–P3 component, was observed in the parietal leads. The P3b component was mainly responsible for the growth of the EP amplitude. In the temporal leads, the activation was substantially weaker than in the parietal leads and displayed lower between-group differences. The results support the idea that the parietal cortex in humans is of primary importance in tasks involving visual attention and stimuli selection.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, nab. Makarova 6, 199034 Russia Ukhtomskii Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg

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Changes in Evoked Potentials Depending on Attention Level in Performance of Visual Tasks