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Averaged Evoked Responses To Tapping: A One‐Subject Scalp Study of Large Signals
Author(s) -
Stowell Hilton
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1973.tb00796.x
Subject(s) - stimulus (psychology) , scalp , stimulation , audiology , psychology , somatosensory system , somatosensory evoked potential , tapping , sensory system , waveform , backward masking , neuroscience , sensory stimulation therapy , communication , perception , physics , anatomy , acoustics , cognitive psychology , medicine , quantum mechanics , voltage
Somatosensory evoked responses (SERs) of unusual amplitude were averaged from the scalp of one subject, for inspection of the time‐course of the early positive‐negative waveform (P 1 to N H ). These early components had a peak‐to‐peak half period of 10–14 msec, for varied stimulus locations and intensities, while their amplitude and latencies varied monotonically with stimulus intensity and sensory level. The time‐course of the P 1 to N H components conformed with that observed for the postsynaptic soma‐dendritic response to direct stimulation of sensory cortex (DCR) in other mammals. Inspection of the later waveform, up to 125 msec poststimulus‐onset (PSO), revealed no negative later than the N H , which peaked at 43–45 msec for digital stimulation. Mechanical stimulation of the digits in the absence of the usual masking noise evoked a different waveform having significant earlier and later components.