Prestimulus alpha power but not phase influences visual discrimination of long-duration visual stimuli.
EEG
alpha
individual alpha frequency
oscillation
perception
signal detection theory
visual
Journal
The European journal of neuroscience
ISSN: 1460-9568
Titre abrégé: Eur J Neurosci
Pays: France
ID NLM: 8918110
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2022
06 2022
Historique:
revised:
10
02
2021
received:
27
07
2020
accepted:
28
02
2021
pubmed:
6
3
2021
medline:
1
7
2022
entrez:
5
3
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Occipital oscillations in the alpha band are closely related to visual perception and attention. In multiple studies, increased alpha power has been shown to reduce detection rates of hard-to-detect visual stimuli. Recent studies explain this finding by a shift in perceptual bias. Moreover, the phase of alpha oscillations prior to stimulus onset appears to be critical for the detection of visual stimuli. This is explained by a shift in cortical excitability over the course of each alpha cycle. However, prior studies often used short presentation times of visual stimuli at the perceptual threshold. Here, we use longer presentation times to elucidate whether the same mechanisms hold for the perception of salient but challenging visual stimuli presented for up to 1,500 ms. To this end, we presented participants with hard to distinguish but salient upright or tilted Gaussian gratings in a two-alternative forced choice task, while recording occipital electroencephalographic activity. Previous reports link alpha power to stimulus detection hit rates, and we found that low prestimulus power at the individual alpha frequency relates to higher perceptual accuracy. Contrary to recent findings, we neither found an influence of alpha power on criterion, nor an influence of alpha phase on perception or response speed. We argue that longer presentation times might attenuate a possible response bias, and increased excitability might sharpen the discrimination ability, thereby leading to increased perceptual accuracy and unaffected response criterion.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
3141-3153Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors. European Journal of Neuroscience published by Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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