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Spatially congruent visual motion modulates activity of the primary auditory cortex

We investigated the brain responses to the transitions from the static to moving audiovisual stimuli using magnetoencephalography. The spatially congruent auditory and visual stimuli moved in the same direction whereas the incongruent stimuli moved in the opposite directions. Using dipole modeling we found that the static-to-moving transitions evoked a neural response in the primary auditory corte

Selective attention in visual short-term memory consolidation

Selection of visual short-term memory content takes place during perceptual and postperceptual processing. We studied postperceptual selection in a change detection task, in which spatially distributed cues preceding the memory array marked potential change targets. In the 550-730ms interval after the memory array onset but not in the following retention interval, event-related potentials showed l

Different time courses of Stroop and Garner effects in perception - An Event-Related Potentials Study

Visual integration between target and irrelevant features leads to effects of irrelevant feature congruency (Stroop) or variation (Garner) on target classification performance. Presenting closed geometrical shapes as stimuli, we obtained Stroop and Garner effects of one part of their contour on another, in response times and error rates. The correlates of these effects in brain activity were obser

Predictability modulates motor-auditory interactions in self-triggered audio-visual apparent motion

We studied an effect of predictability in an audio-visual apparent motion task using magnetoencephalography. The synchronous sequences of audio-visual stimuli were self-triggered by subjects. The task was to detect the direction of the apparent motion in experimental blocks in which the motion either started from the side selected by subjects (predictable condition) or was random (unpredictable co

Anticipated action consequences as a nexus between action and perception : Evidence from event-related potentials

We used high-density event-related potentials (ERP) in a modified flanker paradigm to study the role of anticipated action consequences in action planning and the role of anticipation in the perception of action consequences. Prior to the experiment, participants were trained to classify target letters in a four-alternative forced-choice task; another letter was presented as an effect following ea

Dissociation of early evoked cortical activity in perceptual grouping

Perceptual grouping is a multi-stage process, irreducible to a single mechanism localized anatomically or chronometrically. To understand how various grouping mechanisms interact, we combined a phenomenological report paradigm with high-density event-related potential (ERP) measurements, using a 256-channel electrode array. We varied the relative salience of competing perceptual organizations in m

Dynamics of spontaneous transitions between global brain states

Phase patterns of human scalp alpha EEG activity show spontaneous transitions between different globally phase-synchronized states. We studied the dynamical properties of these transitions using the method of symbolic dynamics. We found greater predictability (deterministicity) and heterogeneity in the dynamics than what was expected from corresponding surrogate series in which linear correlations

Intermittent dynamics underlying the intrinsic fluctuations of the collective synchronization patterns in electrocortical activity

We investigate patterns of collective phase synchronization in brain activity in awake, resting humans with eyes closed. The alpha range of human electroencephalographic activity is characterized by ever-changing patterns, with strong fluctuations in both time and overall level of phase synchronization. The correlations of these patterns are reflected in power-law scaling of these properties. We p

Collinearity, curvature interpolation, and the power of perceptual integration

In three experiments, participants determined the orientation of a global triangle formed by three Gabor patches of a target spatial frequency in a field of distracters. The orientation of the target patches and their proximity were varied between conditions. When all the target patches had the same orientation this facilitated the response compared to random orientations. This effect occurred onl

Phase synchronization analysis of EEG during attentional blink

The attentional blink (AB) phenomenon occurs when perceivers must report two targets embedded in a sequence of distracters; if the first target precedes the second by 200-600 msec, the second one is often missed. We investigated AB by measuring dynamic cross-lag phase synchronization for 565 electrode pairs in 40-Hz-range EEG. Phase synchrony, on average, was higher in experimental conditions, whe

Evoked phase synchronization between adjacent high-density electrodes in human scalp EEG : Duration and time course related to behavior

Objective: Data from a previous event-related potential (ERP) study in visual-perceptual grouping [Nikolaev AR, van Leeuwen C. Flexibility in spatial and non-spatial feature grouping: an event-related potentials study. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 2004;22:13-25] were re-analyzed to identify event-related dynamics of phase-synchronization. Methods: In 20 Hz activity, uniform spreading of phase synchron

Spatial and temporal structure of phase synchronization of spontaneous alpha EEG activity

Spatiotemporal characteristics of spontaneous alpha EEG activity patterns are analyzed in terms of large-scale phase synchronization. During periods with strong phase synchronization over the entire scalp, phase patterns take either of two forms; one is a gradual phase shift between frontal and occipital regions and the other is a stepwise pattern with a sudden phase shift in the central region. T

Local phase synchronization of event-related activity modulated by visual attention

In a visual task using 12 healthy subjects, spread of evoked phase-synchronized activity was studied in local cortical areas. The areas were identified in a previous study of the same data set using event-related potentials (ERP). Chains of closely spaced (∼2 cm) scalp electrodes covering these areas were selected for phase synchronization analysis in which task and control conditions were compare

Flexibility in spatial and non-spatial feature grouping : An event-related potentials study

Early perceptual grouping was studied using 256-channels event-related potentials in a choice response task. The task involved the detection of a triangle configuration of Gabor patches among patches of different spatial frequencies. The influence of two task-irrelevant factors was compared. One was the spatial proximity relation between the target patches and the other their relative orientation,

Effect of proximity and local orientation on evoked electrical brain activity in perceptual grouping

High-density, 256-channel, event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded in 12 subjects, who had to find a triangle of which only the corners were marked in an array of distracters. The orientation of the corner markers to each other and their proximity varied across trials. An early, pre-attentional, nonspatial effect of marker orientation was found at 64 and 100 ms after stimulus presentation in

Perceptual switching, eye movements, and the bus paradox

According to a widely cited finding by Ellis and Stark (1978 Perception 7 575-581), the duration of eye fixations is longer at the instant of perceptual reversal of an ambiguous figure than before or after the reversal. However, long fixations are more likely to include samples of an independent random event than are short fixations. This sampling bias would produce the pattern of results also whe

Scale-invariant fluctuations of the dynamical synchronization in human brain electrical activity

The dynamical properties of large-scale, long-term phase synchronization behavior in the alpha range of electroencephalographic signals were investigated. We observed dynamical phase synchronization and presented evidence of an underlying spatiotemporal ordering. Fluctuations in the duration of episodes of intermittent synchrony are scale-invariant. Moreover, the exponent used to describe this beh

Eye movements during perceptual switches in the pointing triangles illusion

Attneave's (1968) pointing triangle illusion consists of a display of ipsilateral triangles. Perceiving the display results in the illusion that the triangles point in a certain direction. Spontaneous switches in pointing direction are observed. Blink frequency significantly decreases before the switches witnessing for a nonspecific preparation process to perceptual and motor response events. Sacc

Correlation of brain rhythms between frontal and left temporal (Wernicke's) cortical areas during verbal thinking

The aim of this study was to investigate an interaction between frontal and left temporo-parietal cortices in tasks requiring word association. A new method was used to examine averaged event-related potentials in different frequency bands by calculating correlation coefficients between wavelet curves in distant cortical areas. This method was applied to previous event-related potentials recording

Complexity of electrocortical dynamics in children : Developmental aspects

Dimensional complexity (DCx) is an EEG measure derived from nonlinear systems theory that can be indicative of the global dynamical complexity of electrocortical activity. This study examined developmental changes in DCx, as well as the effects of cognitive tasks, gender, and brain topography, and compared DCx with traditional spectral power measures. EEG was recorded in three groups of children a