We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Physiology Brain Response.
- Authors
Schafer, Edward W. P.; Marcus, Marilyn M.
- Abstract
The article presents information on a study regarding the effects of self-stimulation on human sensory brain responses. A significant problem in neurophysiology is determining the extent of the brain's control of its sensory input. If self-stimulation caused different responses in sensory evoked potentials to physically identical stimuli than machine controlled stimulus delivery, they could indicate a relation between cognitive function and the neural activity underlying sensory information processing. Auditory evoked potentials showed this self-stimulation effect to a greater degree than did visual evoked responses. Results indicate that the more foreknowledge the brain has of stimulus timing, the smaller and faster the electrocortical potentials evoked by that stimulus. Directed by these initial findings, subsequent research on the self-stimulation effect concentrated on the amplitude of vertex evoked potentials to auditory stimuli. This study reports on a developing technique for the potential measurement and understanding of biological substrates of individual differences in behavioral intelligence. It emphasizes the value of using associative methods, which take advantage of the relationship between cognition and the neural activity underlying sensory information processing.
- Subjects
SENSORY stimulation; BRAIN research; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURAL stimulation; BEHAVIORAL &; Emotional Rating Scale; LEARNING disabilities
- Publication
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1973, Vol 6, Issue 9, p564
- ISSN
0022-2194
- Publication type
Article