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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Volume 2011, Article ID 364385, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2011/364385 Research Article Square or Sine: Finding a Waveform with High Success Rate of Eliciting SSVEP Fei Teng,1 Yixin Chen,1 Aik Min Choong,1 Scott Gustafson,2 Christopher Reichley,1 Pamela Lawhead,1 and Dwight Waddell1, 3 1 Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Mississippi, MS 38677, USA 2 Department of Psychology, University of Mississippi, MS 38677, USA 3 Department of Health, Exercise Science, and Recreation Management, University of Mississippi, MS 38677, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Fei Teng, feiyesdropship@ Received 26 March 2011; Accepted 17 July 2011 Academic Editor: Li Yuanqing Copyright © 2011 Fei Teng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) is the brain’s natural electrical potential response for visual stimuli at specific frequencies. Using a visual stimulus flashing at some given frequency will entrain the SSVEP at the same frequency, thereby allowing determination of the subject’s visual focus. The faster an SSVEP is identified, the higher information transmission rate the system achieves. Thus, an effective stimulus, defined as one with high success rate of eliciting SSVEP and high signal-noise ratio, is desired. Also, researchers observed that harmonic frequencies often appear in the SSVEP at a reduced magnitude. Are the harmonics in the SSVEP elicited by the fundamental stimulating frequency or by the artifacts of the stimuli? In this paper, we