background and aim: this study investigated whether objective temporal processing paradigms including voice-onset-time, speech-in-noise, and amplitude modulated-broad-band noise (am-bbn) are sensitive to disrupted temporal processing in elderly listeners with normal hearing (age-related-temporal processing deficit). methods: we evaluated 15 adults aged 64–80 years using behavioural measures of ...

Previous studies have reported that individual variation in N1 amplitude is related to attentional problems and alcoholism. Using data from 651 twins and siblings from 292 families we examined whether variation in N1 amplitude and latency can be explained by genetic factors. In half of the subjects the age centered around 26 (young adult cohort), in the other half the age centered around 49 (mi...

Age significantly influences the detection thresholds to noxious heat; such thresholds depend on responses in the cerebral cortex to thermal stimuli and the psychophysical perception of such responses. To understand the influence of age on cerebral responses, we used contact heat-evoked potentials (CHEPs) to investigate the physiology of cerebral responses to thermal stimuli in 70 healthy subje...

BACKGROUND Long Latency Auditory Evoked Potentials. AIM to characterize the Long Latency Auditory Evoked Potentials (LLAEP) in individuals with HIV/AIDS in comparison to a control group. METHOD the research sample was composed by 21 individuals with HIV/AIDS - research group (14 male and 7 female), with ages ranging from 31 to 48 years, and 21 healthy individuals - control group (5 male and...

Brief radiant laser pulses can be used to activate cutaneous Adelta and C nociceptors selectively and elicit a number of transient brain responses in the ongoing EEG (N1, N2 and P2 waves of laser-evoked brain potentials, LEPs). Despite its physiological and clinical relevance, the early-latency N1 wave of LEPs is often difficult to measure reliably, because of its small signal-to-noise ratio (S...

thinking–EP relationship. The results of abstract thinking-EP relationship are presented here (Table 3) only briefly to enable the easier understanding of the complex personality–EP–intelligence relationship, as they are explained in detail in our earlier study (Tatalović Vorkapić et al., 2008). Contrary to our expectations, only three significant correlations between abstract thinking and EPs ...

Purpose: To evaluate whether cortical encoding of temporal processing ability, using the N1 peak of the cortical auditory evoked potential, could be measured in normally hearing young adults using three paradigms: voice-onsettime, speech-in-noise and amplitude-modulated broadband noise. Research design: Cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) were elicited using: (1) naturally produced stop...