It’s About Time: Event-Related Brain Potentials and the Temporal Parameters of Mental Events

Meredith P Levsen; Hannah I Volpert-Esmond; Bruce D Bartholow

doi:10.4324/9780429452925-5

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It’s About Time: Event-Related Brain Potentials and the Temporal Parameters of Mental Events

Meredith P Levsen, Hannah I Volpert-Esmond and Bruce D Bartholow

Measurement in Social Psychology, pp.102-126

Routledge, 1

2019

DOI: 10.4324/9780429452925-5

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Abstract

Although considered an essential tool in the cognitive neuroscience lab, psychophysiological methods are underutilized in social psychology, and the promise they hold for illuminating mechanisms of the social mind remains largely unrealized. Event-related potentials (ERPs) have a number of advantages that can augment behavioral research programs, including the capacity for continuous measurement of neural responses relevant to social-personality theory. In this chapter, we begin by making a case for the importance of the timing of mental events, and outlining the utility of ERPs for measuring that timing. We provide a general description of ERP methodology and review common practices and approaches to assessing psychometric properties of ERP components. We then review several specific ERP components that have been used to address theoretical questions relevant to social psychologists, and we outline the psychometric properties of each of these components.

Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure

P3 Amplitude

Task EEG

Anticipatory Attention

Target Word Onset

Choice Rt Task

CNV

LRP

P3 Latency

Hr Variability

Stimulus Response Compatibility

Congruent Blocks

Post-synaptic Potentials

Affective Congruency Effect

Experimental Task Demands

Acceptable Internal Reliability

Vaccine Hesitancy

P3’s Sensitivity

ERP Waveform

EEG Amplitude

Explore Computer Science

ERP Component

Unfair Offers

LIWC Category

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Title: Subtitle: It’s About Time: Event-Related Brain Potentials and the Temporal Parameters of Mental Events
Creators: Meredith P Levsen
Hannah I Volpert-Esmond
Bruce D Bartholow
Contributors: Hart Blanton (Editor)
Jessica M LaCroix (Editor)
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Measurement in Social Psychology, pp.102-126
Edition: 1
DOI: 10.4324/9780429452925-5
Publisher: Routledge
Alternative title: It’s About Time
Language: English
Date published: 2019
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984446964802771

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