Introdução: No sistema auditivo, as mudanças decorrentes do envelhecimento resultam na dificuldade que os idosos apresentam em compreender a fala, afetando a capacidade de comunicação e de participação nas relações sociais, podendo levar à piora da qualidade de vida desta população. O treinamento auditivo é uma proposta de intervenção baseada na neuroplasticidade que tem o objetivo de adequar as habilidades auditivas de indivíduos com transtorno do processamento auditivo (TPA). Esse método vem sendo cada vez mais utilizado na reabilitação auditiva de idosos e, por meio de medidas comportamentais e eletrofisiológicas, revela-se como uma ferramenta eficaz para otimizar o processamento da fala, contribuindo para um processo de envelhecimento com qualidade de vida. Objetivos: Verificar a eficácia de um programa de treinamento auditivo acusticamente controlado (TAAC) em idosos com TPA utilizando medidas comportamentais e eletrofisiológicas. Método: Participaram 16 idosos (14 mulheres, dois homens) com TPA, os quais realizaram uma avaliação inicial (avaliação 1), composta por testes comportamentais e eletrofisiológicos do processamento auditivo, e foram distribuídos em dois grupos: GP (n=8), submetidos a um treinamento placebo e GSI (n=8) que não foram submetidos a nenhuma intervenção. Após 12 semanas os indivíduos foram submetidos novamente aos testes (avaliação 2 - pré TAAC). Em seguida, todos os indivíduos foram submetidos ao TAAC e após 12 semanas realizaram a avaliação final (avaliação 3 - pós TAAC). Resultados: Não houve diferença significante na análise multivariada entre as avaliações 1 e 2, tanto para os testes comportamentais quanto para o P300, sendo descartada a ocorrência de efeito placebo e efeitos teste-reteste. Na comparação entre as avaliações 2 e 3, foi constatada melhora significante entre as condições pré TAAC e pós TAAC para a maioria das habilidades auditivas investigadas pelo método comportamental; entretanto, o mesmo resultado não foi encontrado para os parâmetros do P300 em nenhuma das condições (tone burst ou fala). Também não foi encontrada diferença significante entre o P300 evocado por estímulo tone burst e o evocado por estímulo de fala no monitoramento das mudanças neurobiológicas decorrentes do TAAC. Conclusões: O TAAC foi capaz de promover uma mudança no desempenho comportamental dos idosos para a maioria das habilidades auditivas investigadas, mostrando ser um método eficaz na reabilitação auditiva de idosos com TPA. Considerando a grande vulnerabilidade aos fatores cognitivos e a variabilidade intra-sujeito que o P300 apresenta, concluímos que este potencial não parece ser a melhor ferramenta para monitorar as mudanças decorrentes do programa TAAC em idosos / Introduction: In the hearing system, changes from aging result in the difficulty that the elderly have understanding speech, affecting their communication abilities and their social participation in the community, which can lead to a decrease of life quality in this group of people. The auditory training is an intervention procedure based on neuroplasticity that aims improving hearing abilities of individuals with auditory processing disorder (APD). This method has been used in the auditory rehab of elderly and, through behavioral and electrophysiological measures, reveals itself as an effective tool for optimizing the processing of speech contributing for an aging process with life quality. Purpose: Verify the efficacy of an acoustically controlled auditory training program (ACAT) in elderly patients with APD using behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Method: Sixteen elderly (14 women, two men) with APD, who have performed an initial evaluation (1), consisting of behavioral and electrophysiological tests of auditory processing, were divided into two groups: GP (n = 8) those who were submitted to a placebo training and GSI (n = 8) the one\'s not submitted to any intervention. After 12 weeks the individuals were submitted to the tests again (evaluation 2 - pre ACAT). Then, all of them were submitted to ACAT and, after 12 weeks (8 training), they were submitted to the final evaluation (3 - post ACAT). Results: There was no significant difference in the various analyses between evaluations 1 and 2, both in the behavioral tests as for the P300, discarding the presence of placebo effects and test-retest. Comparing the evaluations 2 and 3, a significant improvement was found between the pre and post ACAT conditions for the majority of the auditory abilities investigated by the behavioral method; however, the same result was not found for the parameters of P300 in any of the conditions (tone burst or speech). The same way, no significant difference was found between the P300 evoked by tone burst and evoked by speech stimulation during the neurobiological changes monitoring coming from ACAT. Conclusions: The ACAT was able to promote a change in the behavioral performance of the elderly for most investigated auditory abilities, proving to be an effective method regards hearing rehabilitation of elderly with APD. Considering the high vulnerability to the cognitive factors and intra-subject variability that the P300 presents, we conclude that this potential does not seem to be the best tool to monitor the changes that result from the ACAT program in the elderly

Introdução: Plasticidade auditiva refere-se a mudanças que ocorrem no sistema sensorial responsável pela transmissão da informação acústica. A plasticidade do sistema nervoso auditivo central está relacionada a capacidade de adaptação através da reintrodução de estímulos por meio de aparelhos de amplificação sonora ou implante coclear. Essas mudanças são observadas a partir do desempenho de pacientes com o uso do aparelho de amplificação sonora, e podem ser verificadas por meio dos potenciais evocados auditivos de longa latência. Objetivo: caracterizar os Potenciais Evocados Auditivos de Longa Latência (PEALL) em adultos e idosos com perda auditiva neurossensorial, verificando os efeitos da estimulação auditiva por meio da comparação destes potenciais pré e pós adaptação do Aparelho de Amplificação Sonora Individual (AASI). Metodologia: Participaram deste estudo 15 indivíduos adultos e idosos, de ambos os gêneros, de 55 a 85 anos de idade, com perda auditiva neurossensorial de grau leve a moderado com simetria entre as orelhas, sem experiência prévia com qualquer tipo de dispositivo de amplificação sonora. Os indivíduos foram encaminhados pelas empresas de aparelho auditivo WIDEX, Audibel e o Espaço Reouvir, tratando-se de novos usuários de AASI. Os PEALL foram realizados nas condições com e sem AASI, a 60 e 75 dBnNA em campo sonoro, em dois momentos: primeira avaliação realizada até uma semana após a adaptação do AASI e a segunda avaliação realizada após 6 meses da adaptação do AASI. Resultados: Na comparação da primeira avaliação com a segunda avaliação, na condição sem AASI a 60 dBnNA, observou-se diferença estatisticamente significante na latência do componente P1 (p-valor= 0,034). Na condição sem AASI a 75 dBnNA, observou-se diferença estatisticamente significante para a latência do componente P300 (p-valor 0,031) e para a amplitude P2N2 (p-valor 0,024), com diminuição da latência e aumento da amplitude na segunda avaliação. Por sua vez, na comparação da primeira avaliação com a segunda avaliação, na condição com AASI a 75 dBnNA, obteve-se uma diferença estatisticamente significante na latência do componente N2 (p-valor 0,009) e na amplitude P2N2 (p-valor 0,024), com aumento da amplitude na segunda avaliação. Evidenciou-se, também, diferença significante na amplitude P1N1 (p-valor 0,024) na condição com AASI a 60 dBnNA. Conclusão: Os PEALL com estímulo de fala demonstraram ser um importante procedimento para ser utilizado na prática clínica, visando monitorar a plasticidade neuronal do Sistema Nervoso Auditivo Central frente à estimulação auditiva (uso de AASI), em adultos e idosos com perda auditiva neurossensorial de grau leve a moderado / Introduction: Auditory plasticity refers to changes that occur in the sensory system responsible for the transmission of acoustic information. The plasticity of the central auditory nervous system is related to the capacity of adaptation through the reintroduction of stimuli of sound amplification devices or cochlear implants. These changes are observed from the performance of patients with the use of the sound amplification apparatus, and can be verified by long-latency auditory evoked potentials. Purpose: To characterize long latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEP) in adults with sensorineural hearing loss, verifying the effects of auditory stimulation by comparing these before and after adaptation potentials of the Individual Sound Amplification (AASI). Methodology: Fifteen adult and elderly individuals of both genders, aged 55 to 85 years, with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss with symmetry between the ears, without prior experience with any type of sound amplification device. The subjects were referred by hearing aid companies WIDEX, Audibel and Espaço Reouvir, in the case of new hearing aids users. The LLAEP were performed in the conditions with and without AASI, at 60 and 75 dBnNA in sound field, in two moments: first evaluation performed up to one week after AASI adaptation and the second evaluation performed after 6 months of AASI adaptation. Results: In the comparison of the first evaluation with the second evaluation, in the condition without AASI at 60 dBnNA, a statistically significant difference was observed in the latency of the P1 component (p-value = 0.034). In the condition without AASI at 75 dBnNA, a statistically significant difference was observed for the latency of the P300 component (p-value 0.031) and for the P2N2 amplitude (p-value 0.024), with latency decrease and amplitude increase in the second evaluation. In the comparison of the first evaluation with the second evaluation, in the condition with AASI at 75 dBnNA, there was a statistically significant difference in the latency of the N2 component (p-value 0.009) and in the P2N2 amplitude (p-value 0.024) , With amplitude increase in the second evaluation. There was also a significant difference in P1N1 amplitude (p-value 0.024) in the condition with AASI at 60 dBnNA. Conclusion: The LLAEP was an important procedure to be used in clinical practice, aiming to monitor the neural plasticity of the Central Auditory Nervous System in front of auditory stimulation (hearing aids use) in adults and elderly patients with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss of amplification and the importance of neural plasticity of the Central Auditory Nervous System

INTRODUÇÃO: A Esclerose Múltipla é uma doença desmielinizante e autoimune, na qual ocorre a destruição da bainha de mielina por autoanticorpos. Esta destruição causa uma diminuição na velocidade de condução do impulso nervoso alterando, assim, as funções cerebral e neural. Para ocorrer o funcionamento adequado do sistema auditivo, tanto na sua porção periférica quanto na central há necessidade que o mesmo esteja íntegro. OBJETIVO: Este estudo tem como objetivo verificar a ocorrência de alterações nos potenciais evocados auditivos de curta (PEATE), média (PEAML) e longa (P300) latências em adultos audiologicamente normais com diagnóstico de Esclerose Múltipla do tipo remitente recorrente ou surto remissivo. MÉTODO: Para o grupo controle foram avaliados 25 indivíduos com histórico de desenvolvimento neurológico normal e sem queixa de zumbido, sendo 19 do gênero feminino e seis do masculino, com idade variando entre 25 e 55 anos (média de 35,16 anos de idade). Para o grupo pesquisa foram avaliados 25 indivíduos com Esclerose Múltipla do tipo remitente-recorrente ou surto-remissivo, seis do gênero masculino e 19 do feminino, com idades entre 25 e 53 anos (média de 34,88 anos de idade). Todos os indivíduos participantes da pesquisa realizaram audiometria tonal e vocal, medidas de imitância acústica e os potenciais evocados auditivos de curta, média e longa latências. RESULTADOS: Os resultados demonstraram ocorrência de alterações nos potenciais evocados auditivos de tronco encefálico e de média latência e no potencial cognitivo, em indivíduos com Esclerose Múltipla. Com relação ao potencial evocado auditivo de tronco encefálico, verificou-se aumento de latência das ondas III e V e dos interpicos I-III e I-V, sugerindo alteração de tronco encefálico baixo. No que diz respeito ao potencial evocado auditivo de média latência observou-se atraso nas latências das ondas Na e Pa e, para o potencial cognitivo, evidenciou-se aumento da latência do P300. Conclusão: Indivíduos com Esclerose Múltipla do tipo remitente recorrente apresentam alterações eletrofisiológicas observadas nos resultados dos potenciais evocados auditivos de curta e média latências e no potencial cognitivo, sugerindo comprometimento em diferentes locais do sistema nervoso auditivo central / INTRODUCTION: The Multiple Sclerosis is a demyelinating disease and autoimmune, which is the destruction of the myelin sheath of a selfantibodies. This destruction causes a decrease in impulse driving speed of nervous changing thus the brain and neural functions. To place the proper functioning of the auditory system, both in its peripheral portion as the central need that it is full. PURPOSE: This study aims to determine the occurrency of changes in auditory evoked potentials of short (PEATE), middle (PEAML) and long (P300) latencies in adults audiologically normal diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis remitting type of applicant or remissive outbreak. METHOD: For the control group were evaluated 25 individuals with a history of normal neurological development and without complaint from tinnitus, and 19 females and six males, with ages ranging between 25 and 55 years (average of 35.16 years of age) . To search the group were evaluated 25 individuals with Multiple Sclerosis-remitting type of applicant or flareremissive, six males and 19 females, aged between 25 and 53 years (average of 34.88 years of age). All individuals participating in the search conducted tone audiometry and speech, acoustic immitance measures brainstem auditory evoked potential, middle latency response and cognitive potential RESULTS: The results showed occurrencies of changes in brainstem auditory evoked potential and middle latency and cognitive potential in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis. Regarding the potential of brain stem auditory evoked, there was an increase in latency wave III and V and interpeaks I-III and IV, suggesting change in brainstem down. Regarding the auditory evoked potential of average latency there was delay in latencies of Na and Pa waves, and the potential for cognitive, showed an increase of latency of P300. Conclusion: Individuals with multiple sclerosis relapsing remitting type of applicant presents electrophysiological changes seen in the results of sound evoked short and middle latency and the potential cognitive suggesting impairment from different parts of the central auditory nervous system

Introdução: Plasticidade auditiva refere-se a mudanças que ocorrem no sistema sensorial responsável pela transmissão da informação acústica. A plasticidade do sistema nervoso auditivo central está relacionada a capacidade de adaptação através da reintrodução de estímulos por meio de aparelhos de amplificação sonora ou implante coclear. Essas mudanças são observadas a partir do desempenho de pacientes com o uso do aparelho de amplificação sonora, e podem ser verificadas por meio dos potenciais evocados auditivos de longa latência. Objetivo: caracterizar os Potenciais Evocados Auditivos de Longa Latência (PEALL) em adultos e idosos com perda auditiva neurossensorial, verificando os efeitos da estimulação auditiva por meio da comparação destes potenciais pré e pós adaptação do Aparelho de Amplificação Sonora Individual (AASI). Metodologia: Participaram deste estudo 15 indivíduos adultos e idosos, de ambos os gêneros, de 55 a 85 anos de idade, com perda auditiva neurossensorial de grau leve a moderado com simetria entre as orelhas, sem experiência prévia com qualquer tipo de dispositivo de amplificação sonora. Os indivíduos foram encaminhados pelas empresas de aparelho auditivo WIDEX, Audibel e o Espaço Reouvir, tratando-se de novos usuários de AASI. Os PEALL foram realizados nas condições com e sem AASI, a 60 e 75 dBnNA em campo sonoro, em dois momentos: primeira avaliação realizada até uma semana após a adaptação do AASI e a segunda avaliação realizada após 6 meses da adaptação do AASI. Resultados: Na comparação da primeira avaliação com a segunda avaliação, na condição sem AASI a 60 dBnNA, observou-se diferença estatisticamente significante na latência do componente P1 (p-valor= 0,034). Na condição sem AASI a 75 dBnNA, observou-se diferença estatisticamente significante para a latência do componente P300 (p-valor 0,031) e para a amplitude P2N2 (p-valor 0,024), com diminuição da latência e aumento da amplitude na segunda avaliação. Por sua vez, na comparação da primeira avaliação com a segunda avaliação, na condição com AASI a 75 dBnNA, obteve-se uma diferença estatisticamente significante na latência do componente N2 (p-valor 0,009) e na amplitude P2N2 (p-valor 0,024), com aumento da amplitude na segunda avaliação. Evidenciou-se, também, diferença significante na amplitude P1N1 (p-valor 0,024) na condição com AASI a 60 dBnNA. Conclusão: Os PEALL com estímulo de fala demonstraram ser um importante procedimento para ser utilizado na prática clínica, visando monitorar a plasticidade neuronal do Sistema Nervoso Auditivo Central frente à estimulação auditiva (uso de AASI), em adultos e idosos com perda auditiva neurossensorial de grau leve a moderado / Introduction: Auditory plasticity refers to changes that occur in the sensory system responsible for the transmission of acoustic information. The plasticity of the central auditory nervous system is related to the capacity of adaptation through the reintroduction of stimuli of sound amplification devices or cochlear implants. These changes are observed from the performance of patients with the use of the sound amplification apparatus, and can be verified by long-latency auditory evoked potentials. Purpose: To characterize long latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEP) in adults with sensorineural hearing loss, verifying the effects of auditory stimulation by comparing these before and after adaptation potentials of the Individual Sound Amplification (AASI). Methodology: Fifteen adult and elderly individuals of both genders, aged 55 to 85 years, with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss with symmetry between the ears, without prior experience with any type of sound amplification device. The subjects were referred by hearing aid companies WIDEX, Audibel and Espaço Reouvir, in the case of new hearing aids users. The LLAEP were performed in the conditions with and without AASI, at 60 and 75 dBnNA in sound field, in two moments: first evaluation performed up to one week after AASI adaptation and the second evaluation performed after 6 months of AASI adaptation. Results: In the comparison of the first evaluation with the second evaluation, in the condition without AASI at 60 dBnNA, a statistically significant difference was observed in the latency of the P1 component (p-value = 0.034). In the condition without AASI at 75 dBnNA, a statistically significant difference was observed for the latency of the P300 component (p-value 0.031) and for the P2N2 amplitude (p-value 0.024), with latency decrease and amplitude increase in the second evaluation. In the comparison of the first evaluation with the second evaluation, in the condition with AASI at 75 dBnNA, there was a statistically significant difference in the latency of the N2 component (p-value 0.009) and in the P2N2 amplitude (p-value 0.024) , With amplitude increase in the second evaluation. There was also a significant difference in P1N1 amplitude (p-value 0.024) in the condition with AASI at 60 dBnNA. Conclusion: The LLAEP was an important procedure to be used in clinical practice, aiming to monitor the neural plasticity of the Central Auditory Nervous System in front of auditory stimulation (hearing aids use) in adults and elderly patients with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss of amplification and the importance of neural plasticity of the Central Auditory Nervous System

Two decades of event-related potential (ERP) research have established that the most consistent correlates of the onset of visual consciousness are the early visual awareness negativity (VAN), a negative component in the N2 time range over posterior electrode sites, and the late positivity (LP), a positive component in the P3 time range over fronto-parietal electrode sites. A review by Koivisto & Revonsuo (2010) had looked at 39 studies and concluded that the VAN is the earliest and most reliable correlate of visual phenomenal consciousness, whereas the LP probably reflects later processes associated with reflective/access consciousness. However, an “early” vs. “late” debate still persists. This thesis provides an update to that earlier review. All ERP and MEG studies that have appeared since 2010 and directly compared ERPs of aware and unaware conditions are considered. The result corroborates the view that VAN is the earliest and most consistent signature of visual phenomenal consciousness, and casts further doubt on the LP as an ERP correlate of consciousness. Important new methodological, empirical, and theoretical developments in the field are described, and the empirical results are related to the theoretical background debates.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the mechanics with which older adults activate and access different subdomains of their mental lexicons during word retrieval for picture naming. Method: Data were analyzed for 12 aging, native English speakers who performed a picture-word priming task. The auditory probe words were presented in the following conditions in relation to the picture stimuli: Identically related, strongly semantically related, weakly semantically related, strongly phonologically related, weakly phonologically related, semantically related to the strong phonological relative of the target picture label, or phonologically-related to the strong semantic relative of the target picture label. Event related potentials were used to measure picture-word priming effects. Results: Three main results were observed. First, our healthy aging adult participants evidenced strong activation of whole-word phonological representations as well as rhyme representations of target picture labels, but weakened activation of initial phoneme information. Second, they processed semantic information robustly. Finally, our participants appeared to experience phonological competition when accessing target picture labels. Conclusion: Results from this study suggest that healthy aging adults maintain efficient access to whole-word phonological representations, rhyme representations, and conceptual-semantic representations of target picture labels. However, in line with previously-reported findings, they do seem to evidence limited activation of initial phonological information on the path to picture naming.

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L’influence de la couleur dans les mécanismes perceptuels et attentionnels a été étudiée. Quatre couleurs (le rouge, le vert, le bleu et le jaune) ont été calibrées individuellement à travers la technique heterochromatic flicker photometry. Suivant cela, les participants ont déployé leur attention à une cible (un cercle de couleur avec une ligne orientée). Les données électrophysiologiques ont été enregistrées pendant que les sujets performaient la tâche de recherche visuelle, et les analyses ont été basées sur les potentiels évoqués (PÉs). Trois composantes des PÉs ont été examinées : la posterior contralateral positivity (Ppc); la N2pc, reflétant le déploiement de l’attention visuo-spatiale et la temporal and contralateral positivity (Ptc). Des conditions dans lesquelles la cible était bleu ou rouge, lorsque comparées à des conditions avec une cible jaune ou verte suscitaient une N2pc plus précoce. Une amplitude plus élevée est aussi observée pour les cibles rouges pour les composantes Ppc et Ptc, reflétant une sélectivité pré-attentionelle. Ces résultats suggèrent de la prudence dans l’interprétation de données comparant des cibles de différentes couleurs dans des tâches de PÉs, et ce même lorsque les couleurs sont équiluminantes. / We investigated how target color affected behavioral and electrophysiological results in a visual search task. Perceptual and attentional mechanisms were tracked using the N2pc component of the event-related potential and other lateralized components. Four colors (red, green, blue, or yellow) were calibrated for each participant for luminance through heterochromatic flicker photometry and equated to the luminance of grey distractors. Each visual display contained 10 circles, 1 colored and 9 grey, each of which contained an oriented line segment. The task required deploying attention to the colored circle, which was either in the left or right visual hemifield. Three lateralized ERP components relative to the side of the lateral colored circle were examined: a posterior contralateral positivity (Ppc) prior to N2pc, the N2pc, reflecting the deployment of visual spatial attention, and a temporal and contralateral positivity (Ptc) following N2pc. Red or blue stimuli, as compared to green or yellow, had an earlier N2pc. Both the Ppc and Ptc had higher amplitudes to red stimuli, suggesting particular selectivity for red. The results suggest that attention may be deployed to red and blue more quickly than to other colors and suggests special caution when designing ERP experiments involving stimuli in different colors, even when all colors are equiluminant.

A substantial amount of behavioural, genetic, and neurophysiological data suggest that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is influenced by an underlying abnormality in the midbrain dopamine system. A previous study found that children with ADHD are unusually sensitive to the salience of rewards, mediated in part by the dopamine system (Holroyd, Baker, Kerns & Mueller, 2008). The current study aimed to replicate and expand upon the previous finding using event-related potentials (ERP) recorded from typically developing children and children with ADHD as they navigated a “virtual T-Maze” in two conditions differing on reward saliency. Children also completed a behavioural task designed to measure decision making and sensitivity to reward and punishment. Both groups of children responded to the behavioural task in a way that is indicative of increased sensitivity to reward. Unlike the previous study, the salience of reward as reflected in the ERP did not have an effect on either children with ADHD or typically developing children. However, both groups displayed a larger error-related negativity (ERN) in the condition presented second.

Tokie regimieji dirgikliai kaip Necker’io gardelė įdomūs tuo, kad yra dviprasmiai bei sukelia trimatės erdvės pokyčio suvokimą. Remiantis suvokimo apkrovos teorija papildoma užduotis turėtų keisti šį suvokimą. Šio darbo tikslas buvo ištirti dviprasmių ir nedviprasmių gardelių suvokimą skirtingos suvokimo apkrovos užduotyse. I eksperimente dalyvavo 18 studentų (9 vyrai ir 9 moterys). Buvo tiriama didelės ir mažos suvokimo apkrovos įtaka reversijų suvokimui. II eksperimente dalyvavo 9 tiriamieji (7 vyrai ir 2 moterys). Tyrimo eiga buvo tokia pati kaip I eksperimento, bet skyrėsi užduotys: vienoje užduotyje raidžių nebuvo (normalus stebėjimas), kitoje užduotyje raidės buvo, bet į jas nereikėjo kreipti dėmesio. Palyginus abiejų tyrimų rezultatus nustatyta, kad bet kokia suvokimo apkrova panaikina Reversijos neigiamumą subjektyvaus pasikeitimo atveju. Realaus pasikeitimo bloke Reversijos neigiamumas buvo gautas, bet nepriklausė nuo apkrovos. Reversijos teigiamumui neturi įtakos nei suvokimo apkrova, nei suvokimo trukdis, tuo tarpu esant suvokimo trukdžiui Reversijos neigiamumas išnyksta tiek realaus, tiek Necker’io gardelės pasikeitimo atvejais. / Ambiguous visual stimuli such as the Necker lattice are interesting because they can cause apparent changes in our perception. According to the perceptual load theory, complementary tasks would be able to modify the amount of attention paid to this perception. The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of ambiguous and unambiguous lattices under different perceptual load tasks. Eighteen participants (9 men) took part in experiment I. The impact of high and low perceptual loads on perception of reversals was studied. 9 subjects (7 men) participated in experiment II. The experimental procedure was the same as in experiment I, but the tasks were a bit different: task without letters (normal observation) and task with letters distracters. Participants were told not to pay attention to letters in experiment II. A comparison of the results of these two experiments revealed that high and low perceptual loads eliminate Reversal Negativity in Necker change condition. Reversal Negativity was found in Real change condition, but it was load-independent. Neither perceptual load, nor load-resembling distractor have any effects on Reversal Positivity, however, Reversal Negativity was suppressed by load-resembling distractors both in Real change and in Necker change conditions.