Abstract
The state of cortical activation in the parietal and temporal areas of the right and left hemispheres was evaluated using evoked potentials (EP) during tasks consisting of selection of visual stimuli lateralized in the right and left visual fields and needing three different types of attention: to stimulus shape, to stimulus position, and simultaneously to stimulus shape and position. EP were recorded in 15 young healthy experimental subjects using six cortical leads: P3, P4, T3, T4, T5, and T6; the following endogenous EP components (in standard terminology) were analyzed: contingent negative variation (CNV), N1, P3, and the N1-P3 complex. Asymmetry in evoked potentials was assessed in terms of differences to contra-and ipsilateral stimuli in the right and left hemispheres. EP asymmetry was detected in the right hemisphere in all types of selection of lateralized stimuli. The magnitude of asymmetry in the right hemisphere depended on the level (or intensity) of attention: the degree of asymmetry increased with increases in the need for attention to analyze the stimuli. There was a significant relationship between the magnitude of asymmetry and the latent periods of the subjects' responses. The functional significance of these data demonstrating asymmetry may be that it provides better spatial differentiation of visual signals in the right hemisphere, along with dominance of the right hemisphere in attention tasks.
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