Temporal Characteristics of the Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials

Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEP), observed in EEG over occipital areas of the scalp, are natural responses to flicker stimuli. This phenomenon is used in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) and in psychology as an indicator of attention. Despite the fact that SSVEPs are used in these two fields of neuroscience, the knowledge of their fundamental properties is still limited.