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Assessing Field Dependence-Independence Cognitive Abilities Through EEG-Based Bistable Perception Processing.

ABSTRACT: Field Dependence-Independence (FDI) is a widely studied dimension of cognitive styles designed to measure an individual's ability to identify embedded parts of an organized visual field as entities separate from that given field. The research aims to determine whether the brain activity features that are considered to be perceptual switching indicators could serve as robust features, differentiating Field-Dependent (FD) from Field-Independent (FI) participants. Previous research suggests that various features derived from event related potentials (ERP) and frequency features are associated with the perceptual reversal occurring during the observation of a bistable image. In this study, we combined these features in the context of a different experimental scheme using ambiguous and unambiguous stimuli during participants' perceptual observations. We assessed the participants' FD-I classification with the use of the Hidden Figures Test (HFT). Results show that the peak amplitude of the frontoparietal positivity, the late positive deflection in frontal and parietal areas, is higher for the FD group at specific locations of the left lobe, whereas it occurs later for the FD group at the central and occipital electrodes. Additionally, the FD group exhibits higher levels of gamma power before stimulus onset at channel TP10 and higher gamma power during reversal at the right centroparietal electrodes (T8, CP6, and TP10). The peak amplitude of the reversal positivity, the positive deflection during the reversal, is higher for the FD group at the rear right lobe (P4).

SUBMITTER: Farmaki C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6798068 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Assessing Field Dependence-Independence Cognitive Abilities Through EEG-Based Bistable Perception Processing.

Farmaki Cristina C Sakkalis Vangelis V Loesche Frank F Nisiforou Efi A EA

Frontiers in human neuroscience 20191011

Field Dependence-Independence (FDI) is a widely studied dimension of cognitive styles designed to measure an individual's ability to identify embedded parts of an organized visual field as entities separate from that given field. The research aims to determine whether the brain activity features that are considered to be perceptual switching indicators could serve as robust features, differentiating Field-Dependent (FD) from Field-Independent (FI) participants. Previous research suggests that va ...[more]

PMID: 31680904

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Assessing Field Dependence-Independence Cognitive Abilities Through EEG-Based Bistable Perception Processing.

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Assessing Field Dependence-Independence Cognitive Abilities Through EEG-Based Bistable Perception Processing.

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