Psychological Factors as Determinants of Genotype-Environment Balance in Evoked Potentials in Humans

Abstract

It has been found that genotype-environment balance can vary under the influence of psychological factors. Variables modifying genotype-environment balance (i.e., the relative contributions of genotype and environment) in determining the interindividual variability of electrophysiological correlates of information processing (EPs: evoked potentials) have been observed. These variables were both external (the specific stimulus, the task) and internal (the direction of attention, the characteristics of perceptual strategy). Various dependencies of the genotype-environment balance on the specific features of the above-mentioned functions are described.