title: Test-retest stability and short-term habituation of the N1 and gamma band response.
abstract: The gamma band response (GBR) is an exogenous, cortically generated, event-related potential that occurs between 20- and 170-msec post-stimulus onset. The auditory GBR is superimposed on the transient evoked middle and long latency cortical auditory evoked potentials and demonstrates a peak spectral frequency between 30 and 40 Hz. The present investigations were conducted to evaluate the test-retest stability and short-term habituation of the GBR. Both the GBR and N1 were recorded from six normal-hearing, neurologically intact subjects (Investigation 1, test-retest stability) and two subjects with intractable epilepsy with implanted subdural electrode grid arrays (Investigation 2, short-term habituation characteristics). For Investigation 1, the test-retest interval was 1 month. For Investigation 2, 300 samples were acquired per stimulus block (a 10-minute interval) and then subaveraged in blocks of 25 to 50 samples each. Results suggest that (1) like N1, the GBR shows high repeatability (qualitative) and test-retest stability (quantitative) and (2) the GBR does not demonstrate evidence of short-term habituation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Jacobson
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: McCaslin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Elisevich
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mishler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D015225:Magnetoencephalography / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results