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Event-related brain potential and heart rate manifestations of visual selective attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2000

FREDERIK M. VAN DER VEEN ,
JAN J. LANGE ,
MAURITS W. VAN DER MOLEN ,
GIJSBERTUS MULDER  and
LAMBERTUS J.M. MULDER
FREDERIK M. VAN DER VEEN
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Experimental and Work Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
JAN J. LANGE
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental and Work Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
MAURITS W. VAN DER MOLEN
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
GIJSBERTUS MULDER
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental and Work Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
LAMBERTUS J.M. MULDER
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental and Work Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Twenty-eight volunteers were instructed to attend stimuli presented at one side of the computer screen and to ignore stimuli presented at the other side. Both attended and unattended stimulus series consisted of targets (25%) and nontargets (75%) defined on the basis of stimulus shape. Attended targets required a binary choice based on stimulus color. Selective attention led to the expected increase in both midlatency (N2b) and late (P3) brain potential components. Furthermore, selective attention led to increased anticipatory cardiac slowing preceding the target stimulus and to increased primary bradycardia. Correlational analyses revealed a positive relation between the effects of selective attention on N2b amplitude and primary bradycardia suggestive of cortical involvement in the chronotropic control of heart rate.

Keywords

Event-related brain potentialsHeart rateVisual selective attentionAnterior cingulate cortex
Type
Research Article
Information
Psychophysiology , Volume 37 , Issue 5 , September 2000 , pp. 677 - 682
Copyright
© 2000 Society for Psychophysiological Research

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