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Stability of Late Event-Related Potentials: Topographical Descriptors of Motor Control Compared with the P300 Amplitude

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The P300-amplitude evoked with an acoustic oddball-paradigm is considered the most stable late event-related potential (ERP). This amplitude-index has become a standard parameter in electrophysiology. Recently, a robust ERP-parameter (NoGo-anteriorization, NGA) has been introduced, which reflects spatial brain electrical changes in relation to execution and inhibition of a motor response elicited with a Continuous Performance Test (CPT). The current study refers to the stability of this new topographical ERP-parameter compared to the stability of the classical P300-amplitude. For that purpose, 12 healthy subjects were investigated with both paradigms during recording of a 21-channel EEG. Analysis of the resulting ERPs revealed a very high stability for both, topographical and amplitude index: In every single subject, the brain electrical fields were characterized by a more anterior location in the NoGo- compared to the Go-condition (=NGA) and by higher amplitudes after target compared to distractor condition. T-tests, analyses of the effect size and of the power revealed equivalent differences between the two contrasting conditions for the topographical compared to the amplitude index. These results indicate that the stability of the topographical ERP-parameters elicited with the CPT is sufficient for an electrophysiological standard-index. The possibility to elicit a robust and specific spatial brain activation with the CPT is an ideal completion to the classical P300 amplitude effect and, therefore, hopefully will be a useful expansion of the standard paradigms in electrophysiological laboratories.

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    Andreas J. Fallgatter (Psychiatric Neurophysiology), Sabine S. Eisenack, Barbara Neuhauser, Derlis Aranda & Martin J. Herrmann

  2. Department of Child add Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Germany

    Peter Scheuerpflug

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Fallgatter, A.J., Eisenack, S.S., Neuhauser, B. et al. Stability of Late Event-Related Potentials: Topographical Descriptors of Motor Control Compared with the P300 Amplitude. Brain Topogr 12, 255–261 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023403420864

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