On the Transmission of Partial information: Inferences from Movement-Related Brain Potentials
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1992
Keywords
movement related brain EPs & transmission of partial information, adults
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.18.1.217
Abstract
Results are reported from a new paradigm that uses movement-related brain potentials to detect response preparation based on partial information. The paradigm uses a hybrid choice-reaction go/nogo procedure in which decisions about response hand and whether to respond are based on separate stimulus attributes. A lateral asymmetry in the movement-related brain potential was found on nogo trials without overt movement. The direction of this asymmetry depended primarily on the signaled response hand rather than on properties of the stimulus. When the asymmetry first appeared was influenced by the time required to select the signaled hand, and when it began to differ on go and nogo trials was influenced by the time to decide whether to respond. These findings indicate that both stimulus attributes were processed in parallel and that the asymmetry reflected preparation of the response hand that began before the go/nogo decision was completed.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v. 18, issue 1, p. 217-232.
Scholar Commons Citation
Osman, Ahmed O.; Bashore, Theodore R.; Coles, M. G. H.; and Donchin, Emanuel, "On the Transmission of Partial information: Inferences from Movement-Related Brain Potentials" (1992). Psychology Faculty Publications. 314.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/314
