Event-related potentials reveal rapid verification of predicted visual input
- Human information processing depends critically on continuous predictions about upcoming events, but the temporal convergence of expectancy-based top-down and input-driven bottom-up streams is poorly understood. We show that, during reading, event-related potentials differ between exposure to highly predictable and unpredictable words no later than 90 ms after visual input. This result suggests an extremely rapid comparison of expected and incoming visual information and gives an upper temporal bound for theories of top-down and bottom-up interactions in object recognition.
Author details: | Michael Dambacher, Martin Rolfs, Kristin Göllner, Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND, Arthur M. Jacobs |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-44953 |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (paper 180) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2009 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2010/07/16 |
Tag: | Brain potentials; Interactive activation model; Spatial attention; Top-down influences; Word form area |
Source: | PLoS one 4 (2009), 3, Art. e5047, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005047 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
License (English): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 Unported |
External remark: | The article was originally published by PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE: PLoS one. - 4 (2009), 3, Art. e5047 (8 S.) ISSN 1932-6203 DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0005047 |