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The latency of a visual evoked potential tracks the onset of decision making

View ORCID ProfileMichael D Nunez, Aishwarya Gosai, Joachim Vandekerckhove, Ramesh Srinivasan
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/275727
Michael D Nunez
University of California, Irvine;
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Aishwarya Gosai
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
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Joachim Vandekerckhove
University of California, Irvine;
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Ramesh Srinivasan
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Abstract

Encoding of a sensory stimulus is believed to be the first step in perceptual decision making. Previous research has shown that electrical signals recorded from the human brain track evidence accumulation during perceptual decision making (Gold and Shadlen, 2007; O'Connell et al., 2012; Philiastides et al., 2014). In this study we directly tested the hypothesis that the latency of the N200 recorded by EEG (a negative peak occurring between 150 and 275 ms after stimulus presentation in human subjects) reflects the visual encoding time (VET) required for completion of figure-ground segregation before evidence accumulation. Simulations of cognitive decision-making theory show that variation in human response times not related to evidence accumulation (including VET) are tracked by the fastest response times. A one-to-one relationship between N200 latencies and VET was found by directly fitting a linear model between trial-averaged N200 latencies and the 10th percentiles of response times. A one-to-one relationship was also found between single-trial N200 latencies and response times. Fitting a novel neuro-cognitive model of decision-making also showed a 1-to-1 relationship between N200 latency and non-decision time, indicating that N200 latencies track the completion of visual encoding and the onset of evidence accumulation. The N200 waveforms were localized to the cortical surface at temporal and extrastriate locations, consistent with a distributed network engaged in figure-ground segregation of the target stimulus.

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  • - The title was improved - Abstract, Introduction and Discussion sections were clarified - The literature review in the Introduction and Discussion sections was extended - The N200 peak-latency localization was improved and the figure was moved

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The latency of a visual evoked potential tracks the onset of decision making
Michael D Nunez, Aishwarya Gosai, Joachim Vandekerckhove, Ramesh Srinivasan
bioRxiv 275727; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/275727
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The latency of a visual evoked potential tracks the onset of decision making
Michael D Nunez, Aishwarya Gosai, Joachim Vandekerckhove, Ramesh Srinivasan
bioRxiv 275727; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/275727

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