Color-coded pattern suppresses visual evoked cortical potentials and electroretinograms

Yoshiaki Shimada, Koichiro Murayama, Emiko Adachi-Usami

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Abstract

We developed a new visual stimulating system for recording visual evoked cortical potentials and electroretinograms. The stimulus was a color checkerboard, in which each check kept its chromaticity but changed its luminance with its corresponding check. Color-coded pattern stimuli using red and green checks did not produce visual evoked cortical potentials, while yellow checks produced clear responses in a normal subject. Moreover, five color stairs from red and green to yellow showed only that the more colors are different, the smaller the visual evoked cortical potentials become. In addition electroretinogram recordings indicated that color-coded patterns behave in the same way as in visual evoked cortical potentials. The mechanism that causes the small color visual evoked cortical potentials may already be present in the retina. Color perception may be able to induce a suppression of responses for luminance contrast that appears to be formed already in the retina. Retinal responses were affected whether the stimulus field was color coded or not. Pattern electroretinograms appear to be more than the sum of local on and off responses.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)203-210
Number of pages8
JournalDocumenta Ophthalmologica
Volume92
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1996
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Ophthalmology
  • Sensory Systems
  • Physiology (medical)

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