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The lateralized readiness potential: Relationship between human data and response activation in a connectionist model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2001

KEVIN M. SPENCER
Affiliation:
Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA
MICHAEL G. H. COLES
Affiliation:
Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA
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Abstract

Psychophysiological measures such as the lateralized readiness potential (LRP) have been used to study information processing in the Eriksen flankers task. The data provided by these measures are consistent with a continuous flow theory, which proposes that the output of stimulus evaluation is continuously available to the response channels. Cohen et al. (1992) realized this theory in a connectionist model and showed that its behavior corresponded to that of human subjects in the flankers task. We report here a modification of the model and an analysis of the degree to which simulated LRPs (based on the activation functions of the response units of the model) resemble the actual LRPs of human subjects in the same task. Across a variety of different experimental conditions and outcomes, there was a marked correspondence between the simulated and actual LRPs. These observations strengthen the propriety of the connectionist model and of the continuous flow theory on which it is based.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Society for Psychophysiological Research

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