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Response-Related Potentials during Semantic Priming: The Effect of a Speeded Button Response Task on ERPs

This study examines the influence of a button response task on the event-related potential (ERP) in a semantic priming experiment. Of particular interest is the N400 component. In many semantic priming studies, subjects are asked to respond to a stimulus as fast and accurately as possible by pressin...

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Autores principales: van Vliet, Marijn, Manyakov, Nikolay V., Storms, Gert, Fias, Wim, Wiersema, Jan R., Van Hulle, Marc M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3916390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24516556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087650
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author van Vliet, Marijn
Manyakov, Nikolay V.
Storms, Gert
Fias, Wim
Wiersema, Jan R.
Van Hulle, Marc M.
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Manyakov, Nikolay V.
Storms, Gert
Fias, Wim
Wiersema, Jan R.
Van Hulle, Marc M.
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description This study examines the influence of a button response task on the event-related potential (ERP) in a semantic priming experiment. Of particular interest is the N400 component. In many semantic priming studies, subjects are asked to respond to a stimulus as fast and accurately as possible by pressing a button. Response time (RT) is recorded in parallel with an electroencephalogram (EEG) for ERP analysis. In this case, the response occurs in the time window used for ERP analysis and response-related components may overlap with stimulus-locked ones such as the N400. This has led to a recommendation against such a design, although the issue has not been explored in depth. Since studies keep being published that disregard this issue, a more detailed examination of influence of response-related potentials on the ERP is needed. Two experiments were performed in which subjects pressed one of two buttons with their dominant hand in response to word-pairs with varying association strength (AS), indicating a personal judgement of association between the two words. In the first experiment, subjects were instructed to respond as fast and accurately as possible. In the second experiment, subjects delayed their button response to enforce a one second interval between the onset of the target word and the button response. Results show that in the first experiment a P3 component and motor-related potentials (MRPs) overlap with the N400 component, which can cause a misinterpretation of the latter. In order to study the N400 component, the button response should be delayed to avoid contamination of the ERP with response-related components.
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spelling pubmed-39163902014-02-10 Response-Related Potentials during Semantic Priming: The Effect of a Speeded Button Response Task on ERPs van Vliet, Marijn Manyakov, Nikolay V. Storms, Gert Fias, Wim Wiersema, Jan R. Van Hulle, Marc M. PLoS One Research Article This study examines the influence of a button response task on the event-related potential (ERP) in a semantic priming experiment. Of particular interest is the N400 component. In many semantic priming studies, subjects are asked to respond to a stimulus as fast and accurately as possible by pressing a button. Response time (RT) is recorded in parallel with an electroencephalogram (EEG) for ERP analysis. In this case, the response occurs in the time window used for ERP analysis and response-related components may overlap with stimulus-locked ones such as the N400. This has led to a recommendation against such a design, although the issue has not been explored in depth. Since studies keep being published that disregard this issue, a more detailed examination of influence of response-related potentials on the ERP is needed. Two experiments were performed in which subjects pressed one of two buttons with their dominant hand in response to word-pairs with varying association strength (AS), indicating a personal judgement of association between the two words. In the first experiment, subjects were instructed to respond as fast and accurately as possible. In the second experiment, subjects delayed their button response to enforce a one second interval between the onset of the target word and the button response. Results show that in the first experiment a P3 component and motor-related potentials (MRPs) overlap with the N400 component, which can cause a misinterpretation of the latter. In order to study the N400 component, the button response should be delayed to avoid contamination of the ERP with response-related components. Public Library of Science 2014-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3916390/ /pubmed/24516556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087650 Text en © 2014 van Vliet et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Storms, Gert
Fias, Wim
Wiersema, Jan R.
Van Hulle, Marc M.
Response-Related Potentials during Semantic Priming: The Effect of a Speeded Button Response Task on ERPs
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title_sort response-related potentials during semantic priming: the effect of a speeded button response task on erps
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3916390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24516556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087650
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