How do word frequency and memory task influence directed forgetting: An ERP study

External (Versus Internal) Facial Features Contribute Most to Repetition Priming in Facial Recognition: ERP Evidence

“…Based on previous literature (Mohr et al., 2018; Nie, Li, et al., 2016; Nie, Michael, et al., 2014; Nie, Ye, et al., 2016; Ye et al., 2019), before averaging ERP data, we corrected for eye artifacts using source component analysis, combined with a dipole model or a principal component analysis (PCA) (Nowagk & Pfeifer, 1996) based topographic description of the neural activity to produce an operator applied to the data matrix to generate waveform estimates of the overlapping eye and brain activities. Following this correction, we rejected any trials that were contaminated by head movements or by eye blinks exceeding ±75 µV before collapsing data.…”

“…All participants spoke Chinese as their first language and were right-handed as determined by the Edinburgh Handedness Questionnaire, as in previous investigations (Nie, 2018; Ye et al., 2019). No participants reported any history of neurological impairments, psychiatric disorders, or color blindness.…”

ERP Characteristics of Inducing Rule Validity in Number Series Under Time Pressure

“…When the tests were independent of each other, we used Bonferroni corrections to counteract the problem of multiple comparisons; otherwise, we did not apply this correction. This was done following the ways in many previous publications (Chang et al., 2020; Nie & Yu, 2021; Ye et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2013). All inferential analyses used a two-tailed alpha level of 0.05.…”

“…The waveforms were collapsed respectively for the trials correctly identifying each of the different task types as a function of time pressure. Since previous research showed that to ensure an adequate signal-to-noise ratio in the ERPs, there must be at least 16 artifact-free trials per condition (Herron et al., 2003; Minor & Herzmann, 2019; Ross et al., 2018; Yan et al., 2017; Ye et al., 2019; Zhou et al., 2020), we did not analyze data from one participant whose grand-average trials were lower than 16 in more than one condition. The number of grand-average trials of others (excluding those with equipment problems or in which the participant failed to adhere to task guidance) were all above 25 trials per condition.…”

“…All participants were native Chinese speakers, and all were right-handed as determined by the Edinburgh Handedness Questionnaire. This questionnaire was also utilized in our previous investigation (Ye et al, 2019), and it has been verified to have high reliability of 0.869 (Mcmeekan & Lishman, 2011;Yang et al, 2017). All participants reported normal or corrected-to-normal visual acuity, and none reported neurological impairment, psychiatric disorders, or color blindness.…”