An MEG Study of Response Latency and Variability in the Human Visual System During a Visual-Motor Integration Task

Akaysha C. Tang, Barak A. Pearlmutter, Tim A. Hely, Michael Zibulevsky, Michael P. Weisend

NeurIPS 1999 pp. 185-191

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Abstract

Human reaction times during sensory-motor tasks vary consider(cid:173) ably. To begin to understand how this variability arises, we exam(cid:173) ined neuronal populational response time variability at early versus late visual processing stages. The conventional view is that pre(cid:173) cise temporal information is gradually lost as information is passed through a layered network of mean-rate "units." We tested in hu(cid:173) mans whether neuronal populations at different processing stages behave like mean-rate "units". A blind source separation algorithm was applied to MEG signals from sensory-motor integration tasks. Response time latency and variability for multiple visual sources were estimated by detecting single-trial stimulus-locked events for each source. In two subjects tested on four visual reaction time tasks, we reliably identified sources belonging to early and late vi(cid:173) sual processing stages. The standard deviation of response latency was smaller for early rather than late processing stages. This sup(cid:173) ports the hypothesis that human populational response time vari(cid:173) ability increases from early to late visual processing stages.

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Tang et al. "An MEG Study of Response Latency and Variability in the Human Visual System During a Visual-Motor Integration Task." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1999.

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[Tang et al. "An MEG Study of Response Latency and Variability in the Human Visual System During a Visual-Motor Integration Task." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1999.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1999/tang1999neurips-meg/)

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@inproceedings{tang1999neurips-meg,
  title     = {{An MEG Study of Response Latency and Variability in the Human Visual System During a Visual-Motor Integration Task}},
  author    = {Tang, Akaysha C. and Pearlmutter, Barak A. and Hely, Tim A. and Zibulevsky, Michael and Weisend, Michael P.},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1999},
  pages     = {185-191},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1999/tang1999neurips-meg/}
}