PMID- 9083647
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19970603
LR  - 20191024
IS  - 0301-0511 (Print)
IS  - 0301-0511 (Linking)
VI  - 45
IP  - 1-3
DP  - 1997 Mar 21
TI  - Slow negative brain potentials as reflections of specific modular resources of 
      cognition.
PG  - 109-41
AB  - The paper summarizes a series of experiments in which the topography and the 
      amplitude of slow event-related brain potentials (slow ERPs) was studied in 
      cognitive tasks which imposed different amounts of load on functionally distinct 
      processing modules. The results suggest that the topography of slow ERPs reflects 
      the relative activation/inactivation of distinct cortical cell assemblies while 
      the absolute amplitude of the negative maximum seems to reflect how much a 
      particular cell assembly is activated at a particular time. Translated into the 
      terminology of cognitive resource theories one could say that tasks which evoke 
      distinct slow wave patterns draw on independent resources. Likewise, the 
      amplitude of a slow wave pattern could be related to the construct of resource 
      allocation, i.e. the larger the amplitude of a slow wave pattern the more 
      resources of a particular type are allocated to a task. These findings are 
      discussed with respect to possible generator mechanism of slow waves and in 
      relation to possible causes of capacity limitations of the human information 
      processing system.
FAU - Rosler, F
AU  - Rosler F
AD  - Department of Psychology, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany. 
      roesler@mailer.uni-marburg.de
FAU - Heil, M
AU  - Heil M
FAU - Roder, B
AU  - Roder B
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Biol Psychol
JT  - Biological psychology
JID - 0375566
SB  - IM
MH  - Brain/blood supply/*physiology
MH  - Brain Mapping
MH  - Cognition/*physiology
MH  - *Evoked Potentials
MH  - Humans
RF  - 86
EDAT- 1997/03/21 00:00
MHDA- 1997/03/21 00:01
CRDT- 1997/03/21 00:00
PHST- 1997/03/21 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1997/03/21 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1997/03/21 00:00 [entrez]
AID - S0301-0511(96)05225-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0301-0511(96)05225-8 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Biol Psychol. 1997 Mar 21;45(1-3):109-41. doi: 10.1016/s0301-0511(96)05225-8.