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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory

To understand the endogenous components of the event-related brain potential (ERP), we must use data about the components' antecedent conditions to form hypotheses about the information-processing function of the underlying brain activity These hypotheses, in turn, generate testable predictions about the consequences of the component We review the application of this approach to the analysis of the P300 component The amplitude of the P300 is controlled multiplicatively by the subjective probability and the task relevance of the eliciting events, whereas its latency depends on the duration of stimulus evaluation These and other factors suggest that the P300 is a manifestation of activity occurring whenever one's model of the environment must be revised Tests of three predictions based on this “context updating” model are reviewed Verleger's critique is based on a misconstrual of the model as well as a partial and misleading reading of the relevant literature

Is the P300 component a manifestation of context updating

Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension

https://faculty.washington.edu/losterho/Osterhout&Holcomb1992.pdf

Event-related brain potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly

Memory processes, brain oscillations and EEG synchronization

Event-related brain potentials during initial encoding and recognition memory of congruous and incongruous words

Altered visual-evoked potentials in congenitally deaf adults.

Event-related potential studies of cerebral specialization during reading: I. Studies of normal adults☆

http://kutaslab.ucsd.edu/people/kutas/pdfs/1982.BL.316.pdf

Event-related potential studies of cerebral specialization during reading: II. Studies of congenitally deaf adults☆

The Salk institute A number of methodological features were incorporated in a paradigm designed to maximize the likelihood of finding reliable event-related potential (ERP) signs of functional specializations between and within the cerebral hemispheres. Every subject was more accurate in identifying words presented to the right than to the left visual field. The morphology of the ERPs elicited by these words varied considerably as a function of electrode position both within and between the hemispheres. Amplitude asymmetries of ERP components recorded from occipital regions of the two hemispheres varied systematically with the position of the word in the visual field. On the other hand, ERPs from more anterior (temporal and frontal) regions displayed large asymmetries which were in the same direction regardless of the visual field of word presentation. The most prominent such asymmetry was in the negativity in the region 300-500 msec (N410) which was larger in the left than the right hemisphere in every subject. These results demonstrate that in this paradigm which demands specialized language processing ERPs are sensitive to aspects of cerebral organization both within and between the two hemispheres. A large literature has documented the different functional specializations of the left and right cerebral hemispheres in man. While questions remain concerning the specific functions for which each hemisphere is dominant, most investigators concur that the left hemisphere plays a major role in reading, writing, and the production and comprehension of speech, while the right hemisphere is more important for the performance of nonlanguage tasks which require the perception of spatial re

Albert Schmidt

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Event-related brain potentials during initial encoding and recognition memory of congruous and incongruous words

Altered visual-evoked potentials in congenitally deaf adults.

Event-related potential studies of cerebral specialization during reading: I. Studies of normal adults☆

Event-related potential studies of cerebral specialization during reading: II. Studies of congenitally deaf adults☆

Event-Related Potential Studies of Cerebral Specialization during Reading