title: The visual mismatch negativity (vMMN): toward the optimal paradigm.
abstract: In the present article, we tested an optimal vMMN paradigm allowing one to obtain vMMNs for several visual attributes in a short time. vMMN responses to changes in color, duration, orientation, shape, and size were compared between the traditional 'oddball' paradigm (a single type of visual change in each sequence) and the optimal paradigm in which all the 5 types of changes appeared within the same sequence. The vMMNs obtained in the optimal paradigm were equal or larger in amplitude to those in the traditional vMMN paradigm. The optimal paradigm can provide 5 different vMMNs in the same time in which usually only one MMN is obtained. This short objective measure could putatively be used as an index for visual cognition function especially in clinical research.
authors.affiliation: Sleep Disorders Center, Civil Aviation General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xiaosen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.affiliation: Sleep Disorders Center, Civil Aviation General Hospital, Beijing, China. Electronic address: ly20140102@163.com.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Sleep Disorders Center, Civil Aviation General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Sleep Disorders Center, Civil Aviation General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Sleep Disorders Center, Civil Aviation General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Songlin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological Research, Beijing Yiran Sunny Technology Co. Ltd., Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Lijie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Jining No. 1 People's Hospital, Jining, China.
authors.forename: Cuiping
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Si
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological Research, Beijing Yiran Sunny Technology Co. Ltd., Beijing, China. Electronic address: zhaolunlun@aliyun.com.
authors.forename: Lun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003265:Contingent Negative Variation / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Change detection; Optimal paradigm; Visual discrimination; Visual mismatch negativity