Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland ; Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland.
Department of Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University in Prague Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Sep 16;8:666. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00666. eCollection 2014.
An increasing number of studies investigate the visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) or use the vMMN as a tool to probe various aspects of human cognition. This paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of vMMN in the light of methodological considerations and provides recommendations for measuring and interpreting the vMMN. The following key issues are discussed from the experimentalist's point of view in a predictive coding framework: (1) experimental protocols and procedures to control "refractoriness" effects; (2) methods to control attention; (3) vMMN and veridical perception.
越来越多的研究调查了视觉失匹配负波(vMMN),或使用 vMMN 作为工具来探测人类认知的各个方面。本文根据方法学的考虑,综述了 vMMN 的理论基础,并为 vMMN 的测量和解释提供了建议。从预测编码框架的实验者的角度,讨论了以下关键问题:(1)控制“不应期”效应的实验方案和程序;(2)控制注意力的方法;(3)vMMN 和真实知觉。