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This study evaluated the utility of electroencephalographic (EEG) measures as indices of regional cerebral activation during performance of visuo-semantic analysis tasks in neurologically intact adult volunteers. EEG was recorded from 28 scalp locations as participants performed three visual discrimination tasks designed to tap into increasingly more complex operations regularly involved in the recognition of living animate objects. In addition, data from a control task involving the same stimuli, but requiring no cognitive decision or response, was included. EEG records were quantified using power spectrum measures in five frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma). Results showed a significant linear increase in absolute power in the gamma band with increasing task complexity over left hemisphere frontal and occipital regions, and over right temporoparietal regions.
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Simos, P.G., Papanikolaou, E., Sakkalis, E. et al. Modulation of Gamma-Band Spectral Power by Cognitive Task Complexity. Brain Topogr 14, 191–196 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014550808164
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