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KMID : 1137820080290010073
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의공학회지
2008 Volume.29 No. 1 p.73 ~ p.81
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Independent Component Analysis of the Event-Related Potential during Visual Oddball Tasks with Multiple Difficulty Levels
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Kim Ja-Hyun
Yoon Jin
Kim Kyung-Hwan
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to observe the brain activity patterns during visual oddball tasks with two difficulty levels by the analysis of high-density event-related potential (ERP). Along with conventional statistical analysis of averaged ERP waveforms, we applied independent component analysis (ICA) for the individual, single-trial analysis and verified its effectiveness. We could identify multiple ERP components such as early visual components (P1, N1), and two components which seem to be important task-related components and showed difficulty-dependent variability (P2, P300). The P2 was found around central region at 180~220ms, and the P300 was found globally at 300~500ms poststimulus. As the task became difficult, the P2 amplitude increased, and the P300 amplitude decreased. After single-trial ERPs were decomposed into multiple independent components (ICs), several ICs resulting from P2 and P300 sources were identified. These ICs were projected onto scalp electrodes and the projected ICs were statistically compared according to two task difficulties. For most subjects, the results obtained from single-trial/individual analysis using ICA gave the tendencies of amplitude change that are similar to the averaged ERP analysis for most subjects. The temporal pattern and number of ICs corresponding to rhythm was not dependent on the task difficulty. It seems that the motor response was not affected by the task difficulty.
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KEYWORD
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event-related potential (ERP), visual oddball task, multiple task difficulty, independent component analysis (ICA), individual analysis
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