title: Event-Related Synchronization and Desynchronization of High-Frequency Electroencephalographic Activity during a Visual Go/No-Go Paradigm.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  High-frequency electroencephalography (EEG) activity has been observed in association with cognitive processing, including stimulus perception, consciousness and selective attention, in humans. The aim of this study was to compare visual-motor integrated processing between execution and inhibition of a motor response using event-related synchronization (ERS) and desynchronization (ERD) in the 15- to 80-Hz range and to investigate a relationship between event-related potentials (ERPs) and ERS/ERD in 10 normal young subjects.
  
  
  METHODS
  EEGs were recorded from 21 scalp sites during a visual go/no-go paradigm. For ERPs, 40 artifact-free trials were averaged off-line referenced to linked ear lobes. In the β and γ bands, ERS and ERD were calculated by time-frequency analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Go N2 and no-go N2 were elicited 200-250 ms after stimuli, and their distributions were predominant at Fz. Go P3 was predominantly elicited 340-360 ms after stimuli at Pz, whereas no-go P3 was predominantly elicited 360-380 ms after stimuli at Cz. ERD of the β band at Fz and Cz during 300-600 ms showed in the go condition, whereas ERD showed between 39 and 42 Hz at F3 in the no-go condition.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Oscillatory cortical response-related β and γ activities differ between the processing of execution and inhibition in motor responses. β ERDs in the sensorimotor areas with go stimuli may be related to motor responses, and γ ERDs in the left frontal area with no-go stimuli may be involved in the processing of inhibition of motor responses. © 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel.
authors.forename: Mutsumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iijima
authors.forename: Ryuzo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mase
authors.forename: Mikio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Osawa
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Shinichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uchiyama