PMID: 6407819Mar 1, 1983Paper

Visual evoked potentials in pattern motion

EEG-EMG Zeitschrift für Elektroenzephalographie, Elektromyographie und verwandte Gebiete
E GöpfertL Schlykowa

Abstract

Our intention was to obtain a visual evoked potential (VEP) consisting only of a movement-related component for the purpose of further investigations of movement detection. This was attempted by selection of appropriate stimulus conditions. Evoked by initial movement a VEP with five typical waves was observed at the human occipital scalp. The N2-wave with a peak latency of 180-200 ms was most prominent. Following results were yielded in the experiments carried out: 1. Adaptation to a pattern movement: The amplitude of N2 and P1 is significantly reduced (Fig. 4). 2. Relation between amplitude and velocity: The experimental data could be approximated by a power function with an exponent of m = 0.3 for N2 and lower m for later waves (Fig. 5). 3. Pattern variation (grating, checkerboard, zig-zag) had no influence on N2 but on P1 and possibly also on later waves (Fig. 6). These results suggest that the wave N2 is movement-related under our experimental conditions. A pattern-related component may additionally be assumed in wave P2. Components, evoked by further reasons, may be included in the waves following N2. Their specification demands supplementary experiments.

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