Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1972

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

Visual average evoked potentials (AEPs) were recorded from four male Ss in a sequential, single digit problem solving task requiring addition of the first digit to the second. Separate AEPs for the first and second digits allowed Late Positive Component comparisons. It was hypothesized that LPC latency variations are a function of cognitive evaluation of information, with the prediction that there would be a normal latency LPC in the first digit AEP, where S recognizes a stimulus, as compared to a delayed LPC in the second digit AEP where S must both recognize and cognitively evaluate information to solve the addition problem. Two experimental conditions, varying stimulus presentation time between long and short, were run. Equipment failure terminated the experiment and the proposed study could not be researched. The pilot data gathered were too variable and incomplete to permit conclusions. However, these data did not contradict the hypothesis.

Extent

107 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.

Identifier

FADT13522

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