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Effect of feedback contingencies on the control of occipital alpha
Authors:Thomas Mulholland  Peter Eberlin
Institution:(1) Psychophysiology Laboratory, Veterans Administration Hospital, 01730 Bedford, Massachusetts
Abstract:Ten color transparencies were presented 30 times each to ten normal adults in response to changes in their occipital-parietal EEG's. By means of a feedback paradigm, detected alphas caused each slide to flash and stay on as long as alpha persisted, and then to turn off when alpha attenuated, according to four different contingency conditions. For half of the feedback trials, stimulus presentation depended on alpha detection in only one hemisphere and was not influenced by changes in the simultaneously recorded contralateral EEG. For the other feedback trials, stimulus presentation was bilaterally contingent. These contingency configurations were compared with sham feedback, a noncontingent condition during which slide presentation was controlled by a prerecorded tape. For both alpha and no-alpha, the ratio of mean duration over standard error 
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was used as a quantification of the EEG response to visual stimulation. It was assumed that larger ratios indicated increased control of the EEG. Compared with the sham condition, all feedback contingencies produced greater 
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ratios, and hence, improved control of the EEG. The highest ratios were obtained during unilateral feedback from the EEG in which the occurrence of alpha elicited the visual stimulus. The results show that contingency between a visual stimulus and the EEG is an important parameter with regard to experimental control of the EEG.
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