Augmenting Mental Chronometry: The P300 as a Measure of Stimulus Evaluation Time

Authors

Mary Kutash, University of IllinoisFollow
Gregory McCarthy, University of Illinois
Emanuel Donchin, University of Illinois

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1977

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.887923

Abstract

A technique for measuring the latency of the P300 component of event-related brain potentials on individual trials is described. Choice reaction times and the latency of the P300 were compared under speed-maximizing and under accuracy-maximizing instructions. The choice stimuli required different levels of semantic categorization. The data support the proposition that the latency of P300 corresponds to stimulus evaluation time and is independent of response selection.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Science, v. 197, issue 4305, p. 792-795

Scholar Commons Citation

Kutash, Mary; McCarthy, Gregory; and Donchin, Emanuel, "Augmenting Mental Chronometry: The P300 as a Measure of Stimulus Evaluation Time" (1977). Psychology Faculty Publications. 220.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/220