Toward a functional categorization of slow waves.
Toward a functional categorization of slow waves.
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-8986.1988.tb01253.x
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发表时间:
1988-05
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
D. Ruchkin;Ray Johnson;David Mahaffey;Samuel Sutton
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作者:
D. Ruchkin;Ray Johnson;David Mahaffey;Samuel Sutton
This study is concerned with slowly varying, long-duration brain event-related potential (ERP) components, referred to as Slow Wave activity. Slow Wave activity can be observed in the epoch following P3b, suggesting that it reflects further processing invoked by increased task demands, beyond the processing that underlies P3b. The present experiment was designed to distinguish Slow Wave activity related to specific types of task demands which arise during difficult perceptual (pattern recognition) and conceptual (arithmetic) mental operations. Three late ERP components that respond differentially in amplitude to manipulation of perceptual and conceptual difficulty were identified: 1) A P3b, with a topography focused about Pz, evidently related to the subjective categorization of easy and difficult conceptual operations, that increased when the subjective low-prohability operation was performed; 2) A longer latency, centroparietal positive Slow Wave that increased directly with perceptual difficulty but was not affected by conceptual difficulty; 3) A very long latency negative Slow Wave, broadly distributed over centroposterior scalp, that increased directly with conceptual difficulty while its onset was delayed when perceptual difficulty increased. DESCRIPTORS: Event-related potentials. Slow Wave, P3b, Mental arithmetic. Pattern recognition. Information processing. Several reports have described slowly varying, view). These "Slow Waves" can be observed in the long-duration brain event-related potential (ERP) epoch following P3b, suggesting that they reflect components whose amplitudes relate directly to task further processing invoked by increased task dedemands (see Ruchkin & Sutton, 1983, for a re- mands, beyond the processing that underlies P3b. Slow Wave activity has been found in a variety This research was supported in part by a U.S.P.H.S. of tasks. Comparisons of these data suggest that grant from the National Institute of Neurological and there are systematic differences in Slow Waves such Communicative Disorders and Stroke, NS 11 199. We are that they appear to be reducible to two broad catindebted to Dr. Richard Coppola for providing laboratory egories based on their onset latencies, those reflectcomputer software and Mr. Howard Canoune for editorial jng gj^jjer (1) perceptual operations or (2) concep