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Skin sympathetic nerve activity and event-related potentials during auditory oddball paradigms Export

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System, Vol. 60, No. 3. (12 September 1996), pp. 129-135.

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Skin sympathetic nerve activity (SSNA) from the tibial nerve and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded simultaneously during auditory oddball paradigms with a counting task in 10 healthy subjects to elucidate the relationships between the autonomic nervous system and the cognitive process. After the target tones, SSNA bursts were observed more frequently than after the non-target tones. Moreover, the amplitudes of SSNA bursts elicited after the target tones were higher than those elicited after the non-target tones. However, when subjects ignored the series of tones, there was no significant difference between the incidence of SSNA bursts after rare tones and frequent tones. The P300 latencies for the target trials with SSNA bursts were shorter than those for the target trials without SSNA bursts. The average ERP wave forms for the target trials with SSNA bursts showed larger positive deflection in the early part of the P300 component than those for the target trials without SSNA bursts. We conclude that SSNA is generated in relation to the conscious cognitive process, as well as to the reactive automatic process to changes in repeating stimuli. The early part of the P300 component, possibly P3a, may be related to the mechanisms that generate SSNA.


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