A study of the phase resetting from pre-stimulus to post-stimulus alpha wave
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A Method for Tracking the Time Evolution of Steady-State Evoked Potentials
Published on: May 25, 2019
Li Ling1, Yao Dezhong, Liu Tiejun
1School of life science and technology, University of electronics science and technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China.
Abstract:
The alpha wave (8~13 Hz) phase resetting from pre-stimulus to post-stimulus is investigated for eight healthy subjects in a visual and auditory synchronously oddball stimuli experiment. Six parameters are considered: pre-stimulus amplitude and phase angle, post-stimulus amplitude and latency of first positive and negative peak. The results show that the amplitude relationship between pre- and two post-stimulus can be described by a cubic polynomial model; and by using the method of outlying cases test partial phase resetting from pre- to post-stimuli in the band of alpha wave was confirmed in visual and auditory synchronously oddball stimuli experiment.
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