PMID- 6542076
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19841226
LR  - 20190919
IS  - 0167-8760 (Print)
IS  - 0167-8760 (Linking)
VI  - 1
IP  - 2
DP  - 1984 Feb
TI  - Interactions between target and masking stimuli: perceptual and event-related 
      potential effects.
PG  - 153-62
AB  - TWo separate experiments were conducted to determinge the nature of the visual 
      event related potential (ERP) at two different cortical areas under conditions of 
      backward visual masking and to see the effects of varied inter-stimulus-intervals 
      (ISIs) upon both masking and the ERP. The results of the first experiment clearly 
      demonstrated visual ERP attenuation at a target-mask ISI of 40 ms, an ISI which 
      consistently produced masking. Both experiments showed that this effect was 
      specific for the occipital recording site since amplitude reductions were not 
      observed at the vertex under this condition. The mask alone condition produced 
      the largest amplitude ERPs in both experiments. Again, this was specific for Oz. 
      In the second experiment target-mask ISIs which did not produce backward masking 
      (i.e., 10 ms and 100 ms) were not accompanied by ERP amplitude reductions. The 
      results may be explained by a cortical excitatory-inhibitory model. That is, when 
      successive stimuli are presented to the visual system, the visual cortical 
      excitation produced by the initial stimuli is inhibited by the presentation of 
      subsequent stimuli when temporal and spatial intervals are appropriate.
FAU - Andreassi, J L
AU  - Andreassi JL
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Int J Psychophysiol
JT  - International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International 
      Organization of Psychophysiology
JID - 8406214
SB  - IM
MH  - *Evoked Potentials, Visual
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Models, Neurological
MH  - Neural Inhibition
MH  - Perceptual Masking/*physiology
MH  - Reaction Time/physiology
MH  - Visual Perception/*physiology
EDAT- 1984/02/01 00:00
MHDA- 1984/02/01 00:01
CRDT- 1984/02/01 00:00
PHST- 1984/02/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1984/02/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1984/02/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 0167-8760(84)90035-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/0167-8760(84)90035-7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Psychophysiol. 1984 Feb;1(2):153-62. doi: 10.1016/0167-8760(84)90035-7.