A Brain Event Related to the Making of a Sensory Discrimination
- 30 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 203 (4387), 1358-1361
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.424760
Abstract
Event-related potentials associated with detected targets in a vigilance task were analyzed in two ways: (i) by sorting the potentials in terms of sequential reaction time bins of 50 milliseconds and (ii) by examining the single trial waveforms. A negative component (N2) covaried in latency with reaction time. These results support the hypothesis that N2 reflects a decision process which controls behavioral responses in sensory discrimination tasks.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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