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Subjective and objective probability effects on P300 amplitude revisited
Author(s) -
Rosenfeld J. Peter,
Biroschak Julianne R.,
Kleschen Melissa J.,
Smith Kyle M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00283.x
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus (psychology) , audiology , affect (linguistics) , social psychology , communication , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , medicine
Does objective probability affect P300 size independently and in addition to subjective probability? The latter was manipulated by the number of stimuli presented and classification task. Five groups saw target and frequent stimuli. Two saw these with p =.2 or .067, with two different button presses. Three groups saw two additional nontarget stimuli each with p =.067. One group pressed a different button for each stimulus. A second group pressed one button for the three oddballs, another for the frequent. A third critical group pressed one button for the target and another for other stimuli. In this group, P300 was larger for targets versus nontargets, and larger for nontargets versus frequents. Although nontargets were classified with frequents, their actual low probability distinguished them from frequents, and their subjective probability distinguished them from targets. Therefore, actual and subjective probability effects were independently found.