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Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: Trial-by-trial co-variation of pre-stimulus EEG alpha power and visuospatial bias reflects a mixture of stochastic and deterministic effects
Author(s): Benwell, Christopher S Y
Keitel, Christian
Harvey, Monika
Gross, Joachim
Thut, Gregor
Keywords: attention
EEG
jackknife
line bisection
oscillations
Issue Date: 8-Mar-2019
Date Deposited: 20-Sep-2019
Citation: Benwell CSY, Keitel C, Harvey M, Gross J & Thut G (2019) Trial-by-trial co-variation of pre-stimulus EEG alpha power and visuospatial bias reflects a mixture of stochastic and deterministic effects. European Journal of Neuroscience, 48 (7), pp. 2566-2584. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13688
Abstract: Human perception of perithreshold stimuli critically depends on oscillatory EEG activity prior to stimulus onset. However, it remains unclear exactly which aspects of perception are shaped by this pre‐stimulus activity and what role stochastic (trial‐by‐trial) variability plays in driving these relationships. We employed a novel jackknife approach to link single‐trial variability in oscillatory activity to psychometric measures from a task that requires judgement of the relative length of two line segments (the landmark task). The results provide evidence that pre‐stimulus alpha fluctuations influence perceptual bias. Importantly, a mediation analysis showed that this relationship is partially driven by long‐term (deterministic) alpha changes over time, highlighting the need to account for sources of trial‐by‐trial variability when interpreting EEG predictors of perception. These results provide fundamental insight into the nature of the effects of ongoing oscillatory activity on perception. The jackknife approach we implemented may serve to identify and investigate neural signatures of perceptual relevance in more detail.
DOI Link: 10.1111/ejn.13688
Rights: ©2017 The Authors. European Journal of Neuroscienc epublished by Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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