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Baseline EEG gamma activity and induced responses to facial stimuli during the formation of a visual cognitive set

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The power spectra of cortical potentials of baseline activity during interstimulus intervals (4 s; Fourier transform in the frequency band of 1–60 Hz) and short-term (0.8 s) induced responses to facial stimuli (wavelet transform in the 15–60 Hz band) were assessed during the study of the visual cognitive set to facial expression. Significant differences between groups of subjects with different set plasticities were observed only at the set-testing stage. Estimation of short-term (0.8 s) induced responses of wavelet spectra in the group with the plastic set revealed an increase in the power (compared to the power of background activity) of the γ2 band (41–60 Hz) in the temporal, central and occipital areas of the left hemisphere, whereas in the group with the rigid set these power spectra decreased. At the same time, the power in the γ1 band (21–40 Hz) was significantly lower (at the same level with the rigid form), indicating the discrete nature and functional selectivity in the γ frequency band.

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Original Russian Text © V.N. Dumenko, M.K. Kozlov, 2011, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 26–34.

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Dumenko, V.N., Kozlov, M.K. Baseline EEG gamma activity and induced responses to facial stimuli during the formation of a visual cognitive set. Hum Physiol 37, 413–421 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119711040074

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