Lecture 1 Flashcards
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What are the fast-latency responses?
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- the auditory brainstem response (ABR)
- the auditory steady-state response (ASSR)
- the frequency-following response (FFR)
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You can get fast-latency responses when people are ____.
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sleeping
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What are the cochlear responses?
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- OAEs
- EcochG
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What are the 4 parts of an OAE?
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- spontaneous (SOAE)
- transient (TEOAE)
- distortion product (DPOAE)
- stimulus frequency (SFOAE)
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What are the three parts of an EcochG?
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- compound action potential (CAP)
- summating potential (SP)
- cochlear microphonic (CM)
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Where are responses coming from with an EcochG?
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Cochlea and AN
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What does EcochG stand for?
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Electrocochleographic
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What are the cortical auditory evoked responses?
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- auditory middle-latency response
- auditory slow and late-latency response
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What are the middle-latency responses?
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- transient MLR
- 40 Hz ASSR
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What are the slow and late-latency responses?
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- P1-N1-P2 complex
- Mismatch negativity (MMN)
- P300 response
- N400 response
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True or false: cortical auditory evoked responses are commonly used in audiology?
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False: used more in psychology
12
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Are objective measures or behavioural measures superior for testing brain activity?
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behavioural
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What are the two ways to measure brain activity?
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- Hemodynamic / Metabolic
- Electrical (EEG) or magnetic (MEG)
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What are the tests used with measuring Hemodynamic / Metabolic activity?
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- PET
- fMRI
- Optical
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Describe the Hemodynamic / Metabolic approach
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- rich blood supply to brain
- thinking requires blood
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Hemodynamic / Metabolic: spatial and temporal resolution
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- spatial resolution is very good
- temporal resolution is poor (slow because you are looking at something that happens after the fact)
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Explain oxygen rich vs. oxygen poor blood
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oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor blood has different magnetic properties, BOLD or T2* imaging based on loss of magnetization related to use of oxygen released (by blood) to cells that are firing
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What are the tests used with measuring electrical or magnetic activity?
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- electrical (EEG)
- magnetic (MEG)
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Describe the electrical or magnetic approach
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- neurons have electrical properties that can be directly recorded (single unit)
- electrical activity of many neurons sums to create voltage changes at the scalp (e.g. ABR/MLR/ERP)
- electrical activity also creates magnetic fields that can be measured at the scalp (MEG)
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electrical or magnetic: spatial and temporal resolution
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- spatial resolution is poor (because looking at what multiple neurons are doing, not a single one)
- temporal resolution is very good
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What are some differences between electrical and magnetic imagine?
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- Magnetic imaging is very expensive
- Magnetic instead of electrical because nothing is distorted by the scalp
- Electrical imagine isn’t expensive and is used often in clinic
22
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Optical imaging of changes in ____ with tonal stimulation in the chinchilla
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Blood flow
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What is the hemodynamic approach typically used for?
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- Used for studying the structure and function of the cortical networks involved in speech perception and language
- Used for studying high level things (networks, how different parts of the brain are involved in different things)
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Why is the hemodynamic approach not used in audiology assessment?
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- poor temporal resolution
- expensive
- invasive
- requires compliant subject (awake)
- although referrals may be indicated (e.g., MRI)
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What is the electrical/magnetic approach typically used for?
used for estimating hearing thresholds, detecting space-occupying lesions, assessing neural integrity and timing at multiple levels (cochlea to cortex)
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the ____ approach is used extensively in audiological clinical assessment.
elecetrical/magnetic
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Name 4 reasons why electrical/magnetic approaches are common in audiology clinic assessments
1. excellent temporal resolution
2. inexpensive and clinically available
3. non-invasive
4. little compliance is needed
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why is the electrical/magnetic approach used in audiological clinical assessment?
- excellent temporal resolution
- inexpensive (i.e., EEG), clinically available
- non-invasive
- little compliance required
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What setting are electrical/magnetic approach most commonly used in?
hospital
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Electricity is movement of charge from ____ potential to ____ (like water)
high, low
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Rate of flow is current (I) measured in ____
amps
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Resistance to flow (R) is ____
resistance
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Potential difference (V) is measured in ____
Volts
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sodium-potassium pump moves ____ outside cell and ____ inside cell
Na+, K+
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How much energy in the brain does the sodium-potassium pump use?
70% is used to reserve this resting potential
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The sodium pump in the brain allows cells to have ____ resting potential
negative
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calcium pump keeps ____ outside of cell
Ca2+
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membrane is more permeable to ____ (about 40x)
K+
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how does the sodium-potassium pump work?
- some potassium flows out (because of concentration gradient)
- but then more positive charge outside of cell, so electrical force pulls against this, leads to charge of about –80 mV
- leakage of Na+ changes this to about –65 mV
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Where is resting potential?
-65mV
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Neurotransmitters (e.g., glutamate) increase ____ of membrane to Ca2+ or Na+
permeability
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What happens when the cell has a positive potential?
This triggers a closure of sodium channels and an opening of potassium channels, membrane potential swings back to negative, overshooting resting potential (hyperpolarized)
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What are the two sides to the electric neuron?
1. action potentials
2. post-synaptic potentials
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Explain action-potentials
- the output side
- all or none (digital or binary)
- fast!
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Explain post-synaptic potentials
- the input side (what’s happening at the dendrites)
- graded (analogue)
- slow
- it’s the sum activity of lots of other neural action potentials
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Explain the action potential bb gun anaolgy
- consider action potential like firing a BB gun (all or none)
- Bob is getting shot with the BB gun repeatedly… a post-synaptic potential is Bob’s mental state (not all or none, changes more slowly)
- once Bob gets to a certain point, he fires his BB gun!
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What causes excitation?
inflow of Na+ into the dendrite or cell body due to neurotransmitter such as glutamate
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A ____ is low potential
sink
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A ____ is high potential
source
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What happens to the post-synaptic potential during excitation?
- the cell membrane more positive (source)
- the surrounding extracellular fluid negative (sink)
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Explain the dipole electric field in volume conductor
- In the extracellular space, current flows from sources (+) to sinks (-)… i.e., towards places where neurons are being excited
- It will take all possible paths and go to all possible places
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The extracellular sinks and sources create voltage patterns that can be recorded at the ____
scalp
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What way does current flow INSIDE the cell?
sink --> source
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What does isotropic mean?
equal in all directions
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what does anisotropic mean?
different properties in different directions
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Is the extracellular space isotropic or anisotropic? Heterogenous or homogenous?
- ansiotropic and hetergeneous
- but linear at large scales (can ignore the fine details)
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____ and ____ distort electric fields
Skull, scalp
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the dipole field of a single neuron is too ____ to be recorded at the scalp
small (a lot of neurons need to work together and fire at the same time in order to get a response)
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Far-Field
- A couple cm away
- Measuring on the scalp you are a few cm away
- Can get larger responses when people are upside-down
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Does EEG relate to a single neuron?
No, it relates to many neurons acting together
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Explain spatial summation
In order to be detected without averaging, responses must occur in many neurons (at least 60 million) at roughly the same time
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How many mm thick is the cortex?
3-5 mm thick
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How many layers is the cortex?
6
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What cells make up the cortex and how are they aligned?
large pyramid cells, aligned in the same direction (in an open field)
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cortical pyramid cells form an ____ field
open
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true or false: both pyramid, thalamic cells, and axons form open fields?
false: pyramid cells do, but thalamic cells & axons don't
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describe the orientation of neurons in an open and closed field
in an open field, they are all aligned parallel to each other
in a closed field, they are all tangled together
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Dipole fields must be aligned to sum at the ____
scalp
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Dipole fields must be temporally ____ to sum at the scalp
coincident
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What two things do you need to generate a far-field response?
- spatial summation (which requires synchrony)
- an open field
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What happens when many neurons work together, at the same time, in the same direction?
it creates a large dipole (battery) like a giant neuron
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Most large responses are from ____
post-synaptic potentials (coordinated patterns of excitation or inhibition)
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Do action potentials give rise to open fields?
Not really
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do post synaptic potentials need to be precisely aligned to add up? why or why not?
no, they are slow
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do action potentials need to be precisely aligned to add up? why or why not?
yes, because they are very quick (about a msec)
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ABR is composed of ____
action potentials
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are most large responses from pre or post synaptic potentials?
post synaptic
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With an EEG we are looking at ____ activity
spontaneus
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Is stimulus needed for an EEG?
No
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What is the EEG recording?
The scalp-recorded EEG is a pattern of voltage changes reflecting primarily post-synaptic activity (not action potentials)
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What is the EEG picking up?
- only a small number of neurons are spiking at any given time
- post-synaptic potentials are slow and wide-spread
- the pyramid cells in the cortex produce open fields
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With the EEG, oscillations likely reflect what?
Thalamocortical circuit dynamics
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Explain the input/output of the brain
- The brain is a system that oscillates without input, not just input-output
- Only 5-10% of input is coming from the outside
- The brain is highly inwardly focused
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All sensory input passes through the ____
Thalamus (except olfaction)
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Sensory input targets pyramidal neurons in layer ____ of the thalamus
IV
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What % of connections in layer IV are from other parts of the cortex?
90-95%
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Are there more outgoing (corticothalamic) neurons or more incoming (thalamocortical) neurons?
10x as many outgoing
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The brain is a complex system that is only perturbed by ____ input
external
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What are the 5 rhythms of EEG?
1. Alpha
2. Beta
3. Gamma
4. Delta
5. Theta
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Alpha occurs at which frequencies?
8-12 Hz (around 10 Hz)
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Beta occurs at which frequencies?
13-20 Hz (around 20 Hz)
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Gamma occurs at which frequencies?
>20 Hz (big peak around 40 Hz)
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Delta occurs at which frequencies?
0.5-3 Hz (slow waves when deeply sleeping)
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Theta occurs at which frequencies?
4-7 Hz (between delta and alpha)
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What does gamma stimulate?
cortical columns
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What does theta influence?
memory, communication, and syllabic rate
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Eyes closed vs. eyes open EEG
Eyes closed
- A huge peak around 10Hz (alpha)
- When eyes are closed you aren’t processing visual information
- If asked to visualize something when eyes closed, alpha can decrease
Eyes open
- Flattens out (decreases as you go up in frequency)
- Lose alpha because they are processing what they are seeing
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Where is alpha in the brain?
Alpha is everywhere in the brain (but prominent over visual cortex)
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Where is beta in the brain?
beta is mostly motor and sensory cortex
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What do the O, P, C, F, and Fp mean on an EEG?
O = occipital (can see that alpha is big until eyes are open)
P = parietal
C = central
F = frontal
Fp = frontal pole (forehead)
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When eyes are closed, there is lots of ____, the brain is very ____
alpha, synchronized
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When the eyes are open, ____ goes away, there is ____
alpha, desynchronization
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What is the main clinical use of EEG?
tracking sleep
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What are the stages of sleep?
stage 1: very similar to being awake
Stage 2: k complex and bursts of spindles
Stage 3: slow waves and spread out in time (delta waves)
Stage 4: more than 50% of what you are looking at is delta waves
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One year after Berger’s discovery of EEG, the first auditory evoked response was recorded from the auditory nerve of a ____
Cat
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auditory evoked responses refers to ....
electrical stuff occurring in response to sound
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what did Pauline Davis note in EEGs when patients were stimulated with a loud sound?
k-complex
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why do we think Pauline Davis named the k-complex the k-complex?
thought that someone knocked on the door then she discovered it
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Who are the father and mother of auditory evoked responses?
Hallowell Davis and Pauline Davis
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why was progress in auditory evoked response studies slow?
- becuase the spontaneous EEG was much larger than activity evoked by auditory stimuli
- harder to get and record
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all early work with auditory evoked responses included what? like how did people study it?
looking at electrical responses from the cochlea using invasive electrodes (usually placed on the round window)
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how close/far does an electrode have to be for it to be considered near vs far field?
- near field = electrode is in/on the structure
- far field = several cm away
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What are the pros of near-field recording?
- can record post-synaptic potentials and spikes in individual neurons
- can record in closed fields (spatial alignment of dipole fields not necessary)… e.g. thalamus, nuclei
- can record very localized activity
- much larger than far-field
- e.g. CAP is 100 times larger at cochlear wall (e.g. promontory) than at earlobe or mastoid
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What are the cons of near-field recording?
- invasive, often limited to animal studies
- small-scale neural activity might not relate to perception and cognition
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What was the response averager?
- From the 1950s
- Made it possible to detect responses that were smaller than the background EEG activity
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What is a more modern example of response averaging?
face averaging
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what are the 2 assumptions of signal averaging?
1. auditory responses should be time locked to stimulus
2. background activity (EEG) should not be time locked
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with signal averaging, what are we trying to preserve and reduce?
- trying to preserve time-locking
- trying to reduce background activity
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since the auditory response should be the same after each stimulus, averaging the period after each stimulus should ____ this activity
preserve
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since the background activity should not be the same after each stimulus, averaging should ____ this activity
reduce
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Overall, what does averaging show you?
averaging shows you what stays the same on each trial
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Where do late potentials come from?
the cortex
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ABR refers to actions potentials that come from where?
The AN and brainstem
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what are the 5 ways we can classify evoked responses?
1. latency
2. stimulus dependence
3. source tissue
4. source location
5. type of activity
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which classification type is the easiest and most common?
latency
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classify the following auditory evoked responses by short-, mid-, or long-latency:
ECochG
MLR
LLR
ABR
ECochG and ABR = short (<10ms)
MLR - mid (10-50ms)
LLR = long (50+ms)
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ABR is sometimes called the ____ latency response
fast (short = fast)
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Auditory Evoked Responses picture
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Need better resolution and more amplification to pick up ____ vs. ____
fast latency response (ABR) vs. long latency response
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What are 3 ways to describe potentials?
- exogenous
- endogenous
- mesogenous
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what does exogenous mean and give an example
- determined by stimulus
- cochlear microphonic
- AEPs
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what does endogenous mean and give an example
- your reaction to something
- N400 - response to a word that doesn't make sense in the semantic context
- ERPs
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what does mesogenous mean and give an example
- partially determined by the stimulus, partially by perception/cognition
- P1-N1-P2 complex
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is stimulus dependence an easy or hard way to classify?
hard
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what determines a response for endogenous?
attention
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what are the 2 things we observe in EEGs associated with auditory stimuli based on time locked changes?
- AEPs
- ERPs
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What are auditory evoked potentials (AEPs)? Give examples
- responses that are determined by the stimulus (exogenous)
- ECochG, ABR, MLR, ASSR (80 Hz and 40 Hz), FFR
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What are event-related potentials (ERPs)? Give examples
- responses that relate to events
- often relate to cognitive processes
- affected by attention (endogenous)
- LLR, MMN, P300, N400
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source tissue includes ____ activity, which includes what 3 things?
Neural
- Action Potentials
- Post-Synaptic Potentials
- Myogenic or Artifact
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What does source location refer to?
Where it occurs
- Planum Temporale,
- Heschl’s Gyrus
- Cochlear Nucleus
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what are the 5 types of potentials?
- spontaneous
- transient
- sustained
- steady state
- induced
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What are transient potentials?
play a stimulus and get a response (happens once after the stimulus)
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What are spontaneous potentials?
no stimulus, measuring waves from the brain
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What are induced potentials?
- changes in the spontaneous activity in response to a stimulus
- play a sound and see changes in the alpha (induced change)
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What are steady-state potentials?
activity that follows the stimulus in some way
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What are sustained potentials?
EcochG, a pedestal response (constant positivity or negativity), does not fluctuate with the stimulus
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Onset and offset responses are ____
transient
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What is used for a neuropathy assessment?
EcochG
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What are ABR and ASSR used in?
- peripheral hearing assessment (in babies)
- neurological diagnosis
- suprathreshold tests (discrimination)
- speech-evoked responses
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true or false: EEGs in clinical audiology can also be used to detect hidden hearing loss and for advanced assessments?
true
