Search results for "oddball"

Visual mismatch negativity (vMMN): a prediction error signal in the visual modality

2015

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8

Somatosensory change detection in the aging brain

2011

The study examined the brain’s automatic somatosensory change detection mechanism using event-related potentials (ERPs) to tactile electrical pulses to fingers in an oddball paradigm. Also the effects of aging to these ERPs were investigated comparing the data of young adults (N = 20, 22–27 years) with the data of aged participants (N = 12, 67–95 years). In the experiment, the participants were instructed to ignore finger stimuli and to be fully involved to a radio play during the electroencephalogram (EEG) recording. The electrical stimulation was delivered to participant’s forefinger and little finger in randomized order of standard (P = 0.85) and deviant (P = 0.15) stimuli. The analyzed …

Mismatch negativity (MMN) in freely-moving rats with several experimental controls.

2014

Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a scalp-recorded electrical potential that occurs in humans in response to an auditory stimulus that defies previously established patterns of regularity. MMN amplitude is reduced in people with schizophrenia. In this study, we aimed to develop a robust and replicable rat model of MMN, as a platform for a more thorough understanding of the neurobiology underlying MMN. One of the major concerns for animal models of MMN is whether the rodent brain is capable of producing a human-like MMN, which is not a consequence of neural adaptation to repetitive stimuli. We therefore tested several methods that have been used to control for adaptation and differential exogenou…

Brain's change detection elicited by emotional facial expressions in depressed and non-depressed individuals

2009

2021

In vowel discrimination, commonly found discrimination patterns are directional asymmetries where discrimination is faster (or easier) if differing vowels are presented in a certain sequence compared to the reversed sequence. Different models of speech sound processing try to account for these asymmetries based on either phonetic or phonological properties. In this study, we tested and compared two of those often-discussed models, namely the Featurally Underspecified Lexicon (FUL) model (Lahiri and Reetz, 2002) and the Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework (Polka and Bohn, 2011). While most studies presented isolated vowels, we investigated a large stimulus set of German vowels in a more n…

Individual Independent Component Analysis on EEG: Event-Related Responses Vs. Difference Wave of Deviant and Standard Responses

2016

Independent component analysis (ICA) is often used to spatially filter event-related potentials (ERPs). When an oddball paradigm is applied to elicit ERPs, difference wave (DW, responses of deviant stimuli minus those of standard ones) is often used to remove the common responses between the deviant and the standard. Thus, DW can be produced first, and then ICA is used to decompose the DW. Or, ICA is performed on responses of the deviant and standard stimuli separately, and then DW is applied on the filtered responses. In this study, we compared the two approaches to analyzing mismatch negativity (MMN). We found that DW introduced noise in the time and space domains, resulting in more diffi…

Empirical Mode Decomposition on Mismatch Negativity

2008

Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) has been applied in the various disciplines to extract the desired signal. The basic principle is to decompose a time series into intrinsic mode functions (IFMs) and each IFM corresponds to an oscillation phenomenon. A statistical description of the oscillatory activities of the EEG has been well known. It is desired to extract single oscillatory process from the EEG by EMD. Mismatch negativity (MMN) can be automatically elicited by the deviant stimulus in an oddball paradigm, in which physically the deviant stimulus occurs among repetitive and homogeneous stimuli. MMN thus reflects the ability of the brain to detect changes in auditory stimuli. So, the MM…

Extract Mismatch Negativity and P3a through Two-Dimensional Nonnegative Decomposition on Time-Frequency Represented Event-Related Potentials

2010

This study compares the row-wise unfolding nonnegative tensor factorization (NTF) and the standard nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) in extracting time-frequency represented event-related potentials—mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a from EEG under the two-dimensional decomposition The criterion to judge performance of NMF and NTF is based on psychology knowledge of MMN and P3a MMN is elicited by an oddball paradigm and may be proportionally modulated by the attention So, participants are usually instructed to ignore the stimuli However the deviant stimulus inevitably attracts some attention of the participant towards the stimuli Thus, P3a often follows MMN As a result, if P3a was large…

EEG Effective Source Projections Are More Bilaterally Symmetric in Infants Than in Adults

2020

Although anatomical brain hemispheric asymmetries have been clearly documented in the infant brain, findings concerning functional hemispheric specialization have been inconsistent. The present report aims to assess whether bilaterally symmetric synchronous activity between the two hemispheres is a characteristic of the infant brain. To asses cortical bilateral synchronicity, we used decomposition by independent component analysis (ICA) of high-density electroencephalographic (EEG) data collected in an auditory passive oddball paradigm. Decompositions of concatenated 64-channel EEG data epochs from each of 34 typically developing 6-month-old infants and from 18 healthy young adults particip…

Somatosensory mismatch response in young and elderly adults

2014

Aging is associated with cognitive decline and alterations in early perceptual processes. Studies in the auditory and visual sensory modalities have shown that the mismatch negativity [or the mismatch response (MMR)], an event-related potential (ERP) elicited by a deviant stimulus in a background of homogenous events, diminishes with aging and cognitive decline. However, the effects of aging on the somatosensory MMR (sMMR) are not known. In the current study, we recorded ERPs to electrical pulses to different fingers of the left hand in a passive oddball experiment in young (22–36 years) and elderly (66– 95 years) adults engaged in a visual task. The MMR was found to deviants as compared to…