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Contrast sensitivity of pattern transient VEP components: contribution from M and P pathways
(2013-12) SOUZA, Givago da Silva; GOMES, Bruno Duarte; LACERDA, Eliza Maria da Costa Brito; SAITO, Cézar Akiyoshi; SILVA FILHO, Manoel da; SILVEIRA, Luiz Carlos de Lima
The purpose of this study was to compare contrast sensitivity estimated from transient visual evoked potentials (VEPs) elicited by achromatic pattern-reversal and pattern-onset/offset modes. The stimuli were 2-cpd, achromatic horizontal gratings presented either as a 1 Hz pattern reversal or a 300 ms onset/700 ms offset stimulus. Contrast thresholds were estimated by linear regression to amplitudes of VEP components vs. the logarithm of the stimulus contrasts, and these regressions were extrapolated to the zero amplitude level. Contrast sensitivity was defined as the inverse of contrast threshold. For pattern reversal, the relation between the P100 amplitude and log of the stimulus contrast was best described by two separate linear regressions. For the N135 component, a single straight line was sufficient. In the case of pattern onset/offset for both the C1 and C2 components, single straight lines described their amplitude vs. log contrast relations in the medium-to-low contrast range. Some saturation was observed for C2 components. The contrast sensitivity estimated from the low-contrast limb of the P100, from the N135, and from the C2 were all similar but higher than those obtained from the high-contrast limb of the P100 and C1 data, which were also similar to each other. With 2 cpd stimuli, a mechanism possibly driven by the M pathway appeared to contribute to the P100 component at medium-to-low contrasts and to the N135 and C2 components at all contrast levels, whereas another mechanism, possibly driven by the P and M pathways, appeared to contribute to the P100 component at high contrast and C1 component at all contrast levels.
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Efeitos da adaptação ao flicker de luminância sobre o potencial cortical provocado visual
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-08-20) LOUREIRO, Terezinha Medeiros Gonçalves de; SOUZA, Givago da Silva; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5705421011644718
Visual Evoked Potential (VEP) has been a useful method to evaluate spatial vision in humans. Sustained observation of a visual stimulus produces several changes in neural responses at different processing levels in visual system. Previous studies has elucidated how primary visual cortex processing spatial information. Many others studies has also suggested about the contribution of parallel pathways M and P activation on the visual cortical responses evoked by a stimuli that excite only one of these pathways. Cortical excitation through a kind of stimulus that promotes one or both preferential adaptation could be a valuable approach to study activity from M and P pathways interactions on the visual responses. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of luminance flicker adaptation on cortical responses elicited under favorable conditions of joint or differential M and P pathways activation, leading to an increase or decrease cortical responses. Eight subjects (20.25 ± 1.5) with normal vision acuity or corrected to 20/20 were tested. VEPs were recorded under three conditions of visual stimulation with no adaptation: sinusoidal gratings at 0.4, 2 and 10cpd presented at 1 Hz pattern-reversal stimulus (test stimuli). Other conditions was elicited by two-dimensional Gaussian mask adaptation stimulus with luminance variation in time domain (flicker) presented at 5 Hz, 10 Hz and 30 Hz temporal modulation. The experiment consisted on VEPs records above occipital scalp elicited by 8 seconds of adaptation stimulus followed by 2 seconds test stimuli. Cortical responses were evaluated in the time and temporal frequencies domain. In the time domain were measured latency and the P1 component amplitude (peak-line), while in the temporal frequency domain were evaluated amplitudes of alpha, beta and gamma frequency bands present in the in the records. VEPs elicited by the test stimuli were compared between flicker adaptation and no adaptation conditions. Main findings consisted on flicker adaptation that occurred differently at spatial frequencies domain. Results showed P1 component in all stimulation conditions and flicker adaptation at lower spatial frequency (0.4 cpd) in all time conditions. It has also showed a reduction at alpha band energy and an increase in the gamma band at same condition. This study concluded that flicker adaptation led to VEP amplitude decreased due to loss of alpha oscillations energy and gamma band energy increased at 0.4 cpd, and it represented a modification on the balance between M and P visual pathways.
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Ganho de contraste do potencial cortical provocado visual multifocal: efeitos da excentricidade e do modo de estimulação
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-11-29) SILVA, Veronica Gabriela Ribeiro da; SOUZA, Givago da Silva; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5705421011644718
This study evaluated effects of eccentricity and mode presentation on the multifocal visual evoked potential (mfVEPS) recordings extracted by second-order kernels and its possible contributions from parallel visual pathways. Nine subjects (22.5 ± 3.7 years-old) were studied. All the subjects had 20/20 or corrected visual acuity and no previous history of neuro-ophtahlmic diseases or degenerative diseases. The subjects were tested with non dilated pupil in a monocular way. All the experimental procedures agreed to the tenets of Helsinki and were approved by Committee for Ethic in Research of Nucleus of Tropical Medicine (023/2011 protocol, Federal University of Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil). A CRT monitor displayed a 22º radius, 60 sectors dartboard, each sector with 16 checks (8 white and 8 black), pattern mean luminance of 40 cd/m2. The pattern selection to be shown in each sector was temporally modulated according to a binary pseudorandom m-sequence. Two stimulation protocols were used and we called them as pattern reversal and pattern pulse. Stimulus was presented at five Michelson contrast levels (100%, 50%, 25%, 12.5%, and 6.25%) in two trials with increasing and decreasing contrast order. The subject was instructed to keep the eye in a red cross (1º) placed at the center of the screen. Veris 6.01 was used to configure the stimuli. mfVEPs were recorded with gold cup electrodes: the reference electrode was placed at the inion; the recording electrodes were placed at, 4 cm above the inion (channel 1), 1 cm above and 4 cm to the right of the inion (channel 2), 1 cm above and 4 cm to the left of the inion (channel 3). Ground surface electrode was placed at the forehead. Skin impedance was kept below 5 KOhm. Recordings were amplified 100.000x, band-pass filtered between 3 and 100 Hz. The Veris 6.1 performed an offline low-pass filtering at 35 Hz. Veris 6.1 was used to extract first (K2.1) and second (K2.2) slices from second-order kernels data from original channels. Using MATLAB routines three additional channels were computed from the subtraction of the three original channels. For each subject, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) evaluation was performed over the averaged data of two trials in each one of the 6 channels. We measured the RMS amplitude of signal and noise interval of each recording. Finally, we analyzed the waveforms with best SNR for each sector. Mean RMS amplitude for each of six eccentric rings (R1 and R6 are the inner and outer rings, respectively) and for all rings together as a function of stimulus contrast was modeled using Michaelis-Menten functions. Semi-saturation constant (C50) of the contrast-response function was used as indicator of response contrast gain. For pattern reversal protocol contrast-response functions from K2.1/K2.2 had the following C50 values: R1: 35,5% ± 9,3; R2: 26,5% ± 6,5; R3: 22,4% ± 8,8; R4: 18,4% ± 4,4; R5: 20,6% ± 9,3; R6: 26,7% ± 12 / R1: 38,4% ± 4,2; R2: 27,4% ± 7,4; R3: 20,2% ± 4,9; R4: 22,4% ± 4,2; R5: 18,7% ± 3,2; R6: 23,1% ± 8,9. For pattern pulse protocol contrast-response functions from K2.1/K2.2 had the following C50 values: R1: 0; R2: 44,7% ± 10,5; R3: 38,3% ± 12,1; R4: 45,8% ± 12,1; R5: 49,4% ± 16,1; R6: 47,8% ± 14,7 / R1: 0; R2: 50,2% ± 10,3; R3: 48,2% ± 11,1; R4: 28,5% ± 4,2; R5: 54,3% ± 16,2; R6: 0. Two contrast sensitivity mechanisms contribute to mfVEPs elicited by stimuli located in the central visual field, one mechanism with higher contrast gain (pattern reversal mfVEP) and other mechanism with low contrast gain (pattern pulse). For stimulus at the periphery visual field, mechanism with high contrast gain contributed to the generation of mfVEPs elicited by all stimulation modes.
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Influência de parâmetros espaciais sobre potenciais corticais provocados visuais gerados por estimulação pseudoaleatória
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2013-03-08) ARAÚJO, Carolina dos Santos; GOMES, Bruno Duarte; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4932238030330851; SOUZA, Givago da Silva; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5705421011644718
The contributions of contrast detection mechanisms to the visual cortical evoked potential (VECP) have been investigated studying the contrast-response and spatial frequency-response functions. Previously, the use of m-sequences for stimulus control has been almost restricted to multifocal electrophysiology stimulation and, in some aspects, it substantially differs from conventional VECP. Single stimulation with spatial contrast temporally controlled by msequences was not extensively tested or compared to multifocal techniques. Our purpose was to evaluate the influence of spatial frequency and contrast of sinusoidal gratings on the VECP elicited by pseudo-random stimulation. Nine normal subjects were stimulated by achromatic sinusoidal gratings driven by a pseudo-random binary m-sequence at seven spatial frequencies (0.4-10 cpd) and three stimulus sizes (4º, 8º, and 16º of visual angle). At 8º of visual angle, it was also used six contrasts levels (3.12-99%). First order kernel had not provided a consistent measurable signal across spatial frequencies and contrasts that were tested – signal was very small or absent – while the second order kernel first and second slices exhibited reliable responses for the stimulus range. The main differences between results obtained with the first and second slices of the second order kernel were the shape of the amplitude versus contrast and amplitude versus spatial frequency functions. The results indicated that the second order kernel first slice was dominated by M pathway, but for some stimulus condition some P pathway contribution could be found, while the second order kernel second slice reflected the P pathway contribution. The present work extended previous findings of the visual pathways contribution to VECP elicited by pseudo-random stimulation for a wider range of spatial frequencies.