期刊
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
卷 48, 期 6, 页码 825-841出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01146.x
关键词
Categorization; Classification; Event-related potentials; ERPs
资金
- National Institute for Mental Health [MH073703]
Two experiments examined the hypothesis that dual systems of stimulus evaluation for categorization can be observed in event-related potentials: one whose duration is indexed by the latency of the P3 component, and a second evident in a later frontal potential. Subjects categorized artificial animals by a two out of three rule. Stimuli with two visual features of their own category and one feature of a different category (i.e., near the boundary between categories) elicited very prolonged reaction times as compared to stimuli with three features from a single category. This response time (RT) delay was not accompanied by a delayed P3, suggesting that the P3 indexed only a first pass of stimulus evaluation. The near-boundary stimuli elicited more positive potentials than far-boundary stimuli at prefrontal and frontotemporal sites, suggesting that a secondary stage of stimulus evaluation was triggered when detection of single features or simple conjunctions was insufficient to support a correct decision. The frontal potential that was sensitive to categorization difficulty was of opposite polarity to frontal potentials previously observed in manipulations of working memory. The roles of frontal executive processes in categorization and memory tasks are discussed.
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