High frequency components in the spectrum of the visual evoked potential.

The occurrence of short term high frequency components in the spectra of the VEP is usually overshadowed by larger amplitude slow waves which occur simultaneously with the high frequency waves. The high frequency components become evident when the time varying power spectra of short duration (250 ms) segments of the VEP are examined. Two types of short duration time varying power spectra are considered: one is obtained directly from overlapping time segments of the average VEP; and, the other is obtained by computing the spectra from the average autocorrelation functions of overlapping time segments of the data following each stimulus. The first yields the time varying properties for the spectra of the stimulus-synchronized data while, the latter shows the time varying properties of both the synchronized and unsynchronized data present.