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The Effects Of Human Visual Sensory Stimuli On N1b Amplitude: An Eeg Study, Damien Moore, Toshikazu Ikuta, Paul D. Loprinzi Sep 2020

The Effects Of Human Visual Sensory Stimuli On N1b Amplitude: An Eeg Study, Damien Moore, Toshikazu Ikuta, Paul D. Loprinzi

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Sensory systems are widely known to exhibit adaptive mechanisms. Vision is no exception to input dependent changes in its sensitivity. Recent animal work demonstrates enhanced connectivity between neurons in the visual cortex. The purpose of the present experiment was to evaluate a human model that noninvasively alters the amplitude of the N1b component in the visual cortex of humans by means of rapid visual stimulation. Nineteen participants (Mage = 24 years; 52.6% male) completed a rapid visual stimulation paradigm involving black and white reversal checkerboards presented bilaterally in the visual field. EEG data was collected during the visual stimulation paradigm, …