title: Steady-state evoked potentials.
abstract: The advantages of steady-state EP recording include (1) speed in assessing sensory function in normal and sick infants (e.g., in amblyopia) and in sick adults (e.g., in multiple sclerosis); (2) monitoring certain activities of sensory pathways that do not intrude into conscious perception; (3) rapidly assessing sensory function when a large number of subjects must be tested (e.g., in refraction); (4) objective measurement at very high suprathreshold levels where psychophysical methods are difficult or ineffective; (5) rapidly assessing sensory function in normal subjects when EP variability and nonstationarity preculde lengthy experiments; and (6) proving a speedy objective equivalent to behavioral test in animals.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000550:Amblyopia / Q000175:diagnosis; D000818:Animals; D001251:Astigmatism / Q000175:diagnosis; D002415:Cats; D003117:Color Vision Defects / Q000175:diagnosis; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology