Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 1964 · 28 citations · 1 references
Life SciencesNeuroscienceAuditory ElectrophysiologyNeurophysiologySensory NeuroscienceAuditory Evoked PotentialsAuditory NeurophysiologyAuditory NeuroscienceElectroencephalographyEvent-related PotentialsEvoked PotentialsClick-evoked Responses
By an average-response technique we have recorded from the human scalp two classes of responses that are evoked by clicks or tone pips.The first class is "fast," i.e., less than 50 msec.to its highest peak.A repetition rate up to 10 per second is appropriate.Rather intense clicks may be necessary.The responses are strongest at the inion, at the mastoid, or over the temporalis muscle.They are enhanced or reduced by voluntarily tensing or, perhaps by a change of posture, relaxing muscles of the neck or jaw.One variety, from just behind the ear (Kiang), "habituates" rapidly (FIGURE 1).Another, from inion (Bickford), is well sustained and EARLY RESPONSES TO CLICKS (KIANG)
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