Sensory and Cognitive Components of Brain Resonance Responses: An Analysis of Responsiveness in Human and Cat Brain upon Visual and Auditory Stimulation

Abstract

We performed an analysis of topographic and modality-dependent responsiveness of auditory and visual cortex in 5 cats and of vertex and occipital derivations in 12 human subjects. The evoked potentials were studied in the frequency domain by means of the Fourier transform.

Furthermore, digital filtering was applied to confirm and extend the analysis. Preliminary results indicate that resonances were observed mainly in the 5, 10, 20 and 40 Hz frequency bands. The frequency of resonance maxima depended on the sites of measurement electrodes and stimulus modality. It is concluded that the analysis of resonance phenomena in the brain is a useful approach to understanding the relation between evoked potentials, evoked magnetic fields and single-cell recordings.

Key Words:

• evoked potentials (EPs)
• event-related potentials (ERPs)
• EEG
• cat intracranial recordings
• theta and alpha resonances