Amplitude Modulation of Steady-state Visual Evoked Potentials by Event-related Potentials in a Working Memory Task

Overview

Journal J Biol Phys

Specialty Biophysics

Date 2009 Dec 5

PMID 19960240

Citations 11

Authors

Zhenghua Wu

Dezhong Yao

Yu Tang

Yilan Huang

Sheng Su

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Abstract

Previous studies have shown that the amplitude and phase of the steady-state visual-evoked potential (SSVEP) can be influenced by a cognitive task, yet the mechanism of this influence has not been understood. As the event-related potential (ERP) is the direct neural electric response to a cognitive task, studying the relationship between the SSVEP and ERP would be meaningful in understanding this underlying mechanism. In this work, the traditional average method was applied to extract the ERP directly, following the stimulus of a working memory task, while a technique named steady-state probe topography was utilized to estimate the SSVEP under the simultaneous stimulus of an 8.3-Hz flicker and a working memory task; a comparison between the ERP and SSVEP was completed. The results show that the ERP can modulate the SSVEP amplitude, and for regions where both SSVEP and ERP are strong, the modulation depth is large.

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