Is P3 a strategic or a tactical component? Relationships of P3 sub-components to response times in oddball tasks with go, no-go and choice responses
Is P3 a strategic or a tactical component? Relationships of P3 sub-components to response times in oddball tasks with go, no-go and choice responses
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DOI:
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.08.049
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发表时间:
2016-12
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5.7
通讯作者:
R. Verleger;Nils Grauhan;K. Śmigasiewicz
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作者:
R. Verleger;Nils Grauhan;K. Śmigasiewicz
P3 (viz. P300) is a most prominent component of event-related EEG potentials recorded during task performance. There has been long-standing debate about whether the process reflected by P3 istacticalorstrategic, i.e., required for making the present response or constituting some overarching process. Here, we used residue iteration decomposition (RIDE) to delineate P3 subcomponents time-locked to responses and tested for the temporal relations between P3 components and response times (RTs). Data were obtained in oddball tasks (i.e., tasks presenting two stimuli, one rarely and one frequently) with rare and frequent go, no-go, or choice responses (CRs). As usual, rare-go P3s were large at Pz and rare no-go P3s at FCz. Notably, P3s evoked with rare CRs were large at either site, probably comprising both go and no-go P3. Throughout, with frequent and rare responses, P3 latencies coincided with RTs. RIDE decomposed P3 complexes into a large CPz-focusedC-P3 and an earlier Pz-focused response-lockedR-P3.R-P3 had an additional large fronto-central focus with rare CRs, modeling the no-go-P3 part, suggesting that the process reflected by no-go P3 is tightly time-locked to making the alternative response.R-P3 coincided with the fast RTs to frequent stimuli andC-P3 coincided with the slower RTs to rare stimuli. Thus, the process reflected byC-P3might be required for responding to rare events, but not to frequent ones. We argue that these results are nevertheless compatible with atacticalrole of P3 because responses may not be contingent on stimulus analysis with frequent stimuli.