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Electroencephalography (EEG); Steady-State Evoked Potentials (SS-EP); Entrainment; Beat Perception; Rhythm; Attention; Sensorimotor Synchronization (SMS); Rapid Serial Visual Presentation task (RSVP)
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How Attention And Beat Perception Modulate Neural Entrainment To Rhythm, Aaron Wc Gibbings
How Attention And Beat Perception Modulate Neural Entrainment To Rhythm, Aaron Wc Gibbings
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Recently, steady-state evoked potentials (SS-EPs) at the frequency of the beat have been observed in electroencephalograms (EEG; Nozaradan et al., 2011, 2012). Previous studies involved participants actively attending to isochronous sequences and repeating rhythms. Here we assessed whether neural enhancement of SS-EPs at beat-related frequencies occurred when (1) participants did not attend to the rhythms, and (2) the rhythm was novel and did not repeat.
When participants listened to rhythms that contained a beat SS-EP enhancement was larger during attended rhythms than when participants were distracted by another task, although SS-EPs were still present in all conditions. SS-EP enhancement therefore …