Valerie Gray Hardcastle (1995) An Expanded Role for the P300: an Addendum to Klimesch
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Psycoloquy 6(23): An Expanded Role for the P300: an Addendum to Klimesch
AN EXPANDED ROLE FOR THE P300: AN ADDENDUM TO KLIMESCH
Commentary on Klimesch on Memory-Brain
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Department of Philosophy
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0126, USA
valerie@vt.edu
Abstract
Klimesch argues that the P300 component in an evoked
potential waveform corresponds to some sort of episodic memory
search (1995). However, the P300 component must index something
more than that, since we can evoke differential effects using
completely novel stimuli -- stimuli that subjects could not
possibly be recalling or referring to from memory.
Keywords
Alpha, EEG, Hippocampus, Memory, Oscillation, Thalamus,
Theta.
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