Event-Related Brain Potentials: A Tool in the Study of Human Information Processing
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1979
Keywords
Event Related Potential, P300 Amplitude, P300 Component, P300 Latency, Clinical Neurophysiology
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3462-0_2
Abstract
A cognitive psychologist of note who is not particularly impressed with event-related potentials (ERPs) commented recently, while reviewing a grant application, that studies of the behavioral correlates of ERPs can be described as studies in which “phenomena are in search of a theory.” The intent was pejorative, but I found the statement complimentary. I was especially pleased because several years ago in a review of one of my own proposals another referee suggested that in the field of ERPs “one sees a technique futilely searching for phenomena!” We have, it would seem, made good progress in the last decade if we have found phenomena and are now searching for a theory. A detailed review of this progress is presented by Callaway, Tueting, and Koslow (in press).
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Event-Related Brain Potentials: A Tool in the Study of Human Information Processing, in H. Begleiter (Ed.), Evoked Potentials and Behavior, New York: Plenum Press, p. 13-75.
Scholar Commons Citation
Donchin, Emanuel, "Event-Related Brain Potentials: A Tool in the Study of Human Information Processing" (1979). Psychology Faculty Publications. 230.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/230
