Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) are electrical field potentials generated by stimulation of the auditory pathways. With repetitive auditory stimulation, reproducible electrical potentials can be elicited and recorded from scalp electrodes. These waves are generated by specific brain regions and occur at predictable intervals. Clinically, this neurophysiological property is useful t...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article reviews the literature on vestibular-evoked myogenic potential testing, a short latency electromyogram evoked by high acoustic stimuli and recorded via surface electrodes over the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Applications and refinements of this technique are described for different pathologies and in adults and children. RECENT FINDINGS Various techniques for el...

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Evoked potentials are electrical activities that occur in the neural pathways and structures as a response to various external stimulations induced by light, sound, electric, smell, or taste. Evoked potentials are polyphasic waves that oftenly present with an amplitude between 0.120 μA which are formed within 2-500 ms. The source of these activities is probably the summation of the action poten...

Evoked potentials are widely used to diagnose diseases and disorders in the central nervous system. It is thus essential to develop fast algorithms which can track the variations of evoked potentials for a variety of clinical applications. The sparsity of signals in a certain transform domain or dictionary has been exploited in the extraction of noisy signal. However, it isn’t effective enough ...

We present four case reports of elderly hearing-impaired persons demonstrating a binaural interference effect. Performance measures were poorer when stimulation was binaural than when it was monaural. In the first case the effect is shown for aided speech recognition scores. In the second case it is shown in topographic brain maps of the middle-latency auditory evoked potential. In the third an...

This study is intended to clarify the functional role of different ERP components as indicators of the processing of emotions. The effect of emotional connotation of words on hemispheric lateralization is also explored. Visual ERPs were recorded to unilaterally presented positive, negative, and neutral words that should be categorized according to their emotional connotation. The P2 amplitude w...

The magnocellular deficit theory is one of the prominent hypotheses in dyslexia research. However, recent studies have produced conflicting results. Ten dyslexic children and 12 controls were examined with visual evoked potentials elicited by random dot kinematogram. The experiment comprises two sequences, one with randomly moving dots (control condition) and a second sequence where a fraction ...