Examination of Auditory Attention and Visual Evoked Potentials.

Abstract

The present research is a continuation into the investigation of the physiological mechanisms responsible for the selective process that controls sensory input to the central nervous system. This experiment was conducted to examine whether visual evoked potentials recorded from the lateral geniculate and visual cortex are suppressed in amplitude during attention to audiotry stimulation. The results show that increased auditory attention had no significant arousal effects or changes in the amplitudes of the evoked responses recorded along the visual pathway.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA042619

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey H. Lukas
  • Lynn C. Oatman

Organizations

  • Human Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Stimulation
  • Amplitude
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Central Nervous System
  • Electrophysiological Phenomena
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Measurement
  • Nervous System
  • Neural Pathways
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Psychophysiology
  • Security
  • Terahertz Radiation
  • Visual Cortex

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Neuroscience
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.