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  • Title: Mental comparison: P300 component of the ERP reflects the symbolic distance effect.
    Author: Grune K, Mecklinger A, Ullsperger P.
    Journal: Neuroreport; 1993 Sep 10; 4(11):1272-4. PubMed ID: 8219027.
    Abstract:
    The symbolic distance effect was studied in a numerical comparison task by means of behavioural measures and event-related potentials (ERP). Two numbers in the range from 11 to 20 were presented simultaneously and the subjects had to indicate if the right side number was smaller or larger than the left side number. Reaction time, error rate and ERPs were selectively averaged according to the numerical differences between the two numbers. The symbolic distance effect was confirmed: Reaction times and error rates decreased significantly with increasing difference between the two numbers. A significant distance effect was also found for both P300 amplitude and latency. The larger the numerical difference the larger the P300 amplitude and the P300 latency tended to be shorter. This finding suggests that the numerical difference is effective already during stimulus encoding.
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