Journal
BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN
Volume 85, Issue 6, Pages 417-423Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2011.03.025
Keywords
ERP; P1; Alpha; Phase
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- Austrian Science Fund [P 21503-B18]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 21503] Funding Source: researchfish
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Since years there is a hotly discussed dispute whether event-related potentials are either generated by an evoked component or by resetting of ongoing phase. We argue that phase-reset must not be proven in order to accept the general involvement of phase in ERP-generation as it is only one of several possible mechanisms influencing or generating certain ERP-components. Supporting data are presented showing that positive peaks of ongoing pre-stimulus alpha activity are not randomly distributed in time across trials. Most importantly, we found that a certain kind of pre-stimulus phase concentration that represents a continuous development of an alpha wave up to the time window where the P1 is generated is associated with an enlarged event-related component. We conclude that ongoing oscillations cannot be considered random background noise (even before stimulus onset) and that there are probably more phase-mechanisms that can contribute to the ERP-generation. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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