EEG Essay

Question 1

International 10-20 System

Answer 1

Homan et al. (1987)

Question 2

N400 = semantic integration of words.

Answer 2

Kutas & Hillyard (1980)

Question 3

N400 = also in auditory in olfactory modalities.

Answer 3

Kutas & Federmeier (2009)

Question 4

N170 = face stimuli.

Answer 4

Bentin et al. (1996)

Question 5

N170 = expert categories of objects.

Answer 5

Tanaka & Curran (2001)

Rossion et al. (2002)

Question 6

P300 = novel information, affected by biological arousal.

Answer 6

Polich & Kok (1995)

Question 7

N400 = unconscious translation in bilinguals.

Answer 7

Thierry & Wu (2007)

Question 8

Delta activity = slow-wave sleep.

Answer 8

Amzica & Steriade (1998)

Question 9

Sleepwalking and night terrors partially caused by unusual increases in delta activity during SWS.

Answer 9

Espa et al. (2000)

Question 10

Theta activity = processing of novel information.

Alpha activity = long-term semantic memory access.

Answer 10

Klimesch (1999)

Question 11

Alpha activity = Resting state/inattention.

Beta activity = Spontaneous cognitive activity.

Answer 11

Laufs et al. (2003)

Question 12

Gamma activity = perceptual binding.

Answer 12

Grice et al. (1999)

Question 13

Unusually decreased or increased levels of these wave frequencies, in relation to their cognitive correlates, have found to be associated with neurological disorders

Answer 13

Espa et al. (2000)
Klimesch (1999)
Grice et al. (1999)