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One of the first reports of brain electrical activity included the observation that the slow stimulus-induced negative shifts were always accompanied by a decrease in the “feebler” rhythmic currents (Beck 1890, 1892). This observation was nothing less than the first report of alpha blocking (EEG desynchronisation) occurring simultaneously with surface negativity (Brazier, 1961). Half a century later, Jasper (1936) became the first explicitly to hypothesise and demonstrate that negative SPL shifts in the steady potential level (SPL) are related to increased cortical excitability and as such should be related to low voltage fast activity in the EEG. Since that time there have been numerous observations of the relationship between SPL and the EEG. In general it has been demonstrated that increased excitability (EEG desynchronisation) is associated with surface negativity whereas high voltage slow activity is accompanied by surface positivity.
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Curry, S.H. (1993). An Examination of the Relationships Between CNV Amplitude and the Preceding Steady Potential Level. In: McCallum, W.C., Curry, S.H. (eds) Slow Potential Changes in the Human Brain. NATO ASI Series, vol 254. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1597-9_9
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