Mismatch responses related to temporal discrimination of somatosensory stimulation
Mismatch responses related to temporal discrimination of somatosensory stimulation
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DOI:
10.1016/j.clinph.2005.04.021
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发表时间:
2005-08-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Kakigi, R
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作者:
Akatsuka, K;Wasaka, T;Kakigi, R
Objective: To determine the existence of a preattentively evoked somatosensory mismatch negativity component and to investigate the use of that component in objective clinical diagnostics.Methods: First we determined the temporal discrimination threshold (DT) of paired stimuli in each subject, and applied two sequential electrical stimuli to the hand with paired stimulus times of (1) DT -10 ms, (2) DT -30 ms and (3) DT +50 ms. Then, we recorded ERPs using an oddball paradigm, frequent (standard) and rare (deviant). We used two stimuli, DT-30 ms and DT-10 ms, in the first experiment, and DT -30 ms and DT +50 ms, in the second experiment.Results: In each experiment, two specific components, a negative component peaking at approximately 60 ms (N60) and a large positive component peaking around 100-200 ms (P150), were identified, mainly following the deviant stimulus, which were considered somatosensory mismatch components. N60 was more remarkably identified in the second experiment and P150 in the first.Conclusions: N60 might be generated during tasks which subjects can clearly discriminate, but P150, which seems to correspond to auditory mismatch negativity, might be generated in tasks which require fine discrimination.Significance: We confirmed that our new method could be used for the objective examination of temporal discrimination. (c) 2005 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.