Cognitive Psychophysiology: Event-Related Potentials and the Study of Cognition: The Carmel Conferences Volume I (Psychology Revivals)

Originally published in 1984, __Cognitive Psychophysiology: Event-related Potentials and the Study of Cognition__ is the first volume to come out of The Carmel Conferences: designed to examine in detail the assertion that the endogenous components of the Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP) can serve as a tool in the analysis of cognition. The intent of this book was to examine on a rather broad front the claims of cognitive psychophysiology to a niche in the domain of cognitive science. Discussions included: selective attention; the ERP and decision and memory processes; preparatory processes; mental chronometry; perceptual processes; individual differences and clinical applications. It provides an interesting snapshot of the status of ERP research just as it was venturing assertively into cognitive science. Originally published in 1984, Cognitive Psychophysiology: Event-related Potentials and the Study of Cognition is the first volume to come out of The Carmel Conferences: designed to examine in detail the assertion that the endogenous components of the Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP) can serve as a tool in the analysis of cognition. The intent of this book was to examine on a rather broad front the claims of cognitive psychophysiology to a niche in the domain of cognitive science. Discussions included: selective attention; the ERP and decision and memory processes; preparatory processes; mental chronometry; perceptual processes; individual differences and clinical applications. It provides an interesting snapshot of the status of ERP research just as it was venturing assertively into cognitive science. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Original Title Page 6 Original Copyright Page 7 Table of Contents 8 Preface 12 List of Participants 16 Charge to Panels 20 1. Recording and Interpreting Event-Related Potentials 24 1.1. Phrenology and Electrophrenology: It Takes a Lot of Gall to Record Event-Related Potentials 24 1.2. Electrogenesis: A Brief Summary 26 1.3. The Origins of ERP Components 43 1.4. Discussion 53 2. Current Research in the Study of Selective Attention 60 2.1. Introduction 60 2.2. Selective Attention 61 2.3. Conclusion and Discussion 68 3. Event-Related Potentials and Selective Attention 74 3.1. The ERP, Its Structure and Use 74 3.2. The Cocktail Party Effect and the N1 78 3.3. Stimulus Set and Response Set 84 3.4. Discussion 93 4. Report of Panel I: Selective Attention 96 5. Dissociation Between Electrophysiology and Behavior—A Disaster or a Challenge? 130 5.1. Introduction: In Praise of Dissociation 130 5.2. The ERPs Elicited by Rhyming Words 132 5.3. The Amplitude of P300 133 5.4. The Latency of P300 137 6. Theories and Models in Cognitive Psychology 142 6.1. Introduction 142 6.2. Some Simple Psychological Theories 143 6.3. Attentional Limitations 152 6.4. Some Comments on Memory Structure 153 6.5. Summary and Discussion 154 7. Report of Panel II: The ERP and Decision and Memory Processes 162 7.1. The Data Base on P300 162 7.2. Stimulus Evaluation Time and P300 164 7.3. Subjective Probability and P300 168 7.4. Decision Theory and ERPs 179 7.5. World Models, Schemas, and ERPs 190 7.6. Controlled Processing and P300 196 8. Report of Panel III: Preparatory Processes 202 8.1. Survey of Event Preceding Negativities 202 8.2. Subcomponents of the Contingent Negative Variation 214 8.3. Considerations from a Theory of Movement 224 9. The Timing of Mental Acts 244 9.1. Donders and Mental Chronometry 244 9.2. Sternberg and Additive Factors 247 9.3. The Verification Process 250 9.4. The Quantification Process 258 9.5. Discussion 266 10. Report of Panel IV: Mental Chronometry 272 10.1. Introduction 272 10.2. The Latency of P300 274 10.3. Stimulus Evaluation Time and P300 Latency 277 11. ERPs and Psychophysics 326 11.1. Introduction: Sensory Channels and ERPs 326 11.2. Experimental Demonstrations 328 11.3. Discussion 335 12. Report of Panel V: Perceptual Processes 340 12.1. Conflicts Between Visual Psychophysics and ERPs 340 12.2. The Somesthetic ERP and the Perception of Stimulus Intensity 344 12.3. Representations: Ideas for Experiments 348 13. Report of Panel VI: Individual Differences and Clinical Applications 362 13.1. Introduction 362 13.2. A Tutorial Survey: Neuropsychology 362 13.3. ERPs and Diminished Mental Functioning 366 13.4. Hyperkinesis and ERPs 376 13.5. Korsakoff's Disease 381 13.6. Some Plans and Paradoxes in the Interface of Behavioral and ERP Indices of Hemispheric Asymmetries 393 Bibliography 420 Author Index 438 Subject Index 444 evoked,potentials|neuropsychology|cognitive,function|mental,processes|selective,attention|memory,processes|perceptual,processes|human,information,processing|event-related,brain,potential,(ERP)|cognitive,science evoked potentials|neuropsychology|cognitive function|mental processes|selective attention|memory processes|perceptual processes|human information processing|event-related brain potential (ERP)|cognitive science First published in 1984, this is the first volume to comne out of The Carmel Conferences. The resulting book provides an interesting snapshot of the status of Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP) research just as it was venturing assertively into cognitive science.