Equivalence relations do exist before they are tested: Confirmatory evidence revealed by EEG measurements
| Autor: | Marcelo S Caetano, Mateus Silvestrin, Marcelo V. Silveira, Julio C. de Rose, Erik Arntzen, Eduardo C Vilela |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050103 clinical psychology genetic structures Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Electroencephalography behavioral disciplines and activities Behavioral Neuroscience medicine Equivalence relation Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Reinforcement Equivalence (measure theory) Evoked Potentials medicine.diagnostic_test 05 social sciences N400 Outcome (probability) Semantics Female Psychology Priming (psychology) Reinforcement Psychology Word (group theory) Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the experimental analysis of behaviorReferences. 115(1) |
| ISSN: | 1938-3711 |
| Popis: | We examined equivalence-based N400 effects by comparing EEG data from participants with different experiences with equivalence testing. Before a priming task used in EEG measurement, Group 1 was given only matching-to-sample training trials whereas Group 2 was exposed to matching-to-sample training and equivalence probe trials. We asked whether exposure to the reinforcement contingency was sufficient to bring about an N400 outcome that might indicate potentially emergent equivalence relations or if such a response depended on experience with equivalence tests. Results showed robust N400 in both groups. Experience with equivalence tests did not further increase the N400 effects. Our findings add confirmatory evidence that equivalence relations may originate via the reinforcement contingency alone. Furthermore, complementary EEG data collected from priming tasks involving words from natural language showed functional overlap between laboratory-defined equivalence and natural word-based N400 effects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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