TY  - GEN
A1  - Allefeld, Carsten
A1  - Frisch, Stefan
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
T1  - Detection of early cognitive processing by event-related phase synchronization analysis
N2  - In order to investigate the temporal characteristics of cognitive processing, we apply multivariate phase synchronization analysis to event-related potentials. The experimental design combines a semantic incongruity in a sentence context with a physical mismatch (color change). In the ERP average, these result in an N400 component and a P300-like positivity, respectively. The synchronization analysis shows an effect of global desynchronization in the theta band around 288ms after stimulus presentation for the semantic incongruity, while the physical mismatch elicits an increase of global synchronization in the alpha band around 204ms. Both of these effects clearly precede those in the ERP average. Moreover, the delay between synchronization effect and ERP component correlates with the complexity of the cognitive processes.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - paper 074 
KW  - phase synchronization
KW  - coherence
KW  - semantic incongruity
KW  - color change
KW  - N400
KW  - P300
KW  - theta
KW  - alpha
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-20126
ER  -