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Event-related Brain Potentials: A Tool in the Study of Human Information Processing

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Evoked Brain Potentials and Behavior

Part of the book series: The Downstate Series of Research in Psychiatry and Psychology ((DSRPP,volume 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).

Preparation of this report was supported by DARPA through contract #N00014-76-C-0002 with the office of Naval Research. This same contract supported all of the studies conducted at the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory described in this report . The somewhat informal nature of this chapter is due to the fact that it was first presented as a “minicourse on ERPs” before the 1977 convention of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Philadelphia. I am grateful to Don Fowles, the Program Committee chairman, for giving me this assignment. Gregory Chesney’s help in the preparation of this manuscript is gratefully acknowledged, as are the comments of Connie Duncan-Johnson and Gregory McCarthy.

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Donchin, E. (1979). Event-related Brain Potentials: A Tool in the Study of Human Information Processing. In: Begleiter, H. (eds) Evoked Brain Potentials and Behavior. The Downstate Series of Research in Psychiatry and Psychology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3462-0_2

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