Cortical origins of response time variability during rapid discrimination of visual objects
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In this paper, we use single-trial analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) to ascertain the cortical origins of response time variability in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task. We extract spatial components that maximally discriminate between target and distractor stimulus conditions over specific time windows between stimulus onset and the time of a motor response. We then compute the peak latency of this differential activity on a trial-by-trial basis, and correlate this with response time. We find, for our nine participants, that the majority of the latency is introduced by component activity which begins far-frontally 200 ms prior to the response and proceeds to become parietally distributed near the time of response. This activity is consistent with the hypothesis that cortical networks involved in generating the late positive complexes may be the origins of the observed response time variability in rapid discrimination of visual objects.
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RSVP-based BCI can be beneficial to applications where a large number of images need to be reviewed by professionals but cannot be well analyzed by computers.
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- Authors
- Gerson, A. D., Parra, L. C., & Sajda, P.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- City College of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sajda, Paul
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-11
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 342-353
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2112786982
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- FWCI
- 3.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
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- Funders
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (EB004730)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- reaction time variability, rapid serial visual presentation, single-trial EEG, target-distractor discrimination, parietal cortex, frontal cortex, late positive complex, motor response latency, cortical networks
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Algorithms, Discrimination, Psychological, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Eye Movements, Female, Humans, Kinetics, Male, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception, Linear Models, Artifacts
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