title: Time pressure modulates electrophysiological correlates of early visual processing.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Reactions to sensory events sometimes require quick responses whereas at other times they require a high degree of accuracy-usually resulting in slower responses. It is important to understand whether visual processing under different response speed requirements employs different neural mechanisms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We asked participants to classify visual patterns with different levels of detail as real-world or non-sense objects. In one condition, participants were to respond immediately, whereas in the other they responded after a delay of 1 second. As expected, participants performed more accurately in delayed response trials. This effect was pronounced for stimuli with a high level of detail. These behavioral effects were accompanied by modulations of stimulus related EEG gamma oscillations which are an electrophysiological correlate of early visual processing. In trials requiring speeded responses, early stimulus-locked oscillations discriminated real-world and non-sense objects irrespective of the level of detail. For stimuli with a higher level of detail, oscillatory power in a later time window discriminated real-world and non-sense objects irrespective of response speed requirements.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Thus, it seems plausible to assume that different response speed requirements trigger different dynamics of processing.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Department of Biological Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Ingo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fründ
authors.forename: Niko A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Busch
authors.forename: Jeanette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schadow
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gruber
authors.forename: Ursula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Körner
authors.forename: Christoph S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Herrmann
mesh_terms: D004569:Electroencephalography; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*