ATTENTION IN EVOKED RESPONSES AT HIGH-REPETITION RATES

长期目标是改进研究警觉性/注意力的研究方法。在人类中，通过在高重复率下提供刺激时获得的诱发反应。这将通过进一步发展新技术来实现，包括计算机化。和行为，需要证明在这些特殊刺激条件下的注意力/警觉性的影响。高刺激率调用B，雨功能不存在于较低的利率，如G波，并可能提供“时间绑定”机制在皮层内的迹象。 实验结果表明，改进后的技术工作正常，优于现有的方法。这些改进很可能导致新的进步，因为现在无法获得这些响应。该项目还将确定必要的硬件/软件要求，以满足首次使用这些技术的实验室研究人员的需求。 这项研究与健康有关，因为它可能提供其他任何方式都无法获得的数据，这些数据涉及大脑功能，这些功能可能受到正常衰老以及疾病（如阿尔茨海默氏症）的影响。

The long-term goal is to improve research methodologies for study of alertness/attention. in humans by means of evoked responses obtained when stimuli are provides-at high repetition-rates. This will be accomplished further development of new techniques, both computerized. and behavioral, needed to demonstrate effects of attention/alertness under these special stimulus conditions. High stimulus rates invoke b, rain functions not present at lower rates, such as G-waves, and may provide indications of "temporal binding" mechanisms within the cortex. The experiments will show that the improved techniques work appropriately and are better than presently-available methods. The improvements may well lead to new advances because these responses cannot be obtained now. The project will also determine the hardware/software requirements necessary to meet the needs of laboratory researchers who will first use these techniques. This research is health-related because it is likely to provide data, unavailable by any other means, about brain functions that can be affected by both normal aging, as well as by disease (such as Alzheimer's).