The Journal of Neurobehavioral Sciences

Yazarlar: Rahmi Saylik

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DOI:10.5455/JNBS.1489763028

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Özet: This study is aimed to investigate whether memories can be recollected unintentionally. To investigate this, electroencephalographic activity (EEG) was recorded from 64 electrodes. Participants performed recognition tasks which consisted of celebrity names in an implicit way. They were asked to decide whether the presented celebrity names were actor/actress or not while event-related potentials (ERPs) recordings were taking place. In the study, ERP results from old names and new names were compared. In this comparison two effects, which were mid-frontal old/new effect (300-500 ms) and parietal old/new effect (500-800 ms), were set. The results show that old names triggered higher activation over a late left lateralized central and left parietal old-new effect (500- 800 ms) during implicit task performance. The results indicated that memory can be retrieved unintentionally and this retrieval may be associated with recollection.

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