EEG arousal decrement during paired-associate learning.
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 61 (1) , 15-19
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022841
Abstract
The EEGs of 5 experimental and 5 yoked control (no informative feedback) Ss[subjects] were compared during the learning of a paired-associate task. Alpha (8-12-cps waves) increased for the experimental and decreased for the yoked control Ss significantly over Vincentized tenths of trials. Behavioral responses of the experimental Ss plotted forward and backward from the last error were all-or-none; at the same time the alphaJwave incidence rose in a continuous fashion. Thus, EEG changes are not attributable to performance-induced aftereffects since they occur well in advance of, and in a different manner from, behavioral changes.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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