VISUAL EVOKED-POTENTIALS TO ILLUSORY REVERSALS OF THE NECKER CUBE
VISUAL EVOKED-POTENTIALS TO ILLUSORY REVERSALS OF THE NECKER CUBE
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-8986.1988.tb00976.x
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发表时间:
1988-03-01
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
SQUIRES, NK
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作者:
ODONNELL, BF;HENDLER, T;SQUIRES, NK
Sensory adaptation and cognitive evaluation have been proposed as explanations of illusory figure reversals. The effect of variations in the perceive orientation of a Necker cube on visual evoked potentials (VEPs) was studied to test these two hypotheses. VEPs associatedwith perceptual reversals and non-reversals of a Necker cube were compared with VEPs elicited by a sequence of physically varying cubical figures. Amplitude differences in the early VEP components consistent with adaptation effects were not detected. Both types of reversals were associated with a late positive component (400-700 ms), which was smaller in amplitude on the illusory condition. The late positivity to illusory reversals was also distinguished by a broad (200-700 ms) positive component over frontal and central recording sites which was absent over OZ. These findings suggest that illusory reversals are more difficult to discriminate than physical reversals, and require additional cognitive resources for evaluation.