Studies of sensory evoked potentials in humans (Vogel et al., 1986) have shown that latency and amplitude of visual and auditory potentials depend on individual characteristics of the resting-state EEG: subjects with abundant, high-amplitude alpha-rhythm showed higher amplitudes of most peaks of the visually and auditory evoked potentials compared to individuals with the low-voltage EEG type who showed reductions in ERP amplitudes (described above in greater detail). This study provided the first evidence that genetically transmitted differences in the resting EEG can influence the characteristics of brain potentials elicited by sensory stimulation. However, the conclusions of that early work were limited to differences between two relatively rare EEG variants.
