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Intelligence and information processing during an auditory discrimination task with backward masking: an event-related potential analysis.

P Gordon Bazana·Robert M Stelmack
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The relation between mental ability and auditory discrimination ability was examined by recording event-related potentials from 60 women during an auditory oddball task with backward masking. Across conditions that varied in intensity and in the interval between the target and masking stimuli, the higher ability (HA) group exhibited greater response accuracy, shorter response times, larger P3 amplitude, and shorter P3 latency to target stimuli than the lower ability (LA) group. When instructed to ignore the stimuli, the HA group exhibited shorter mismatch negativity latency to deviant tones than the LA group. The greater speed and accuracy of auditory discrimination for the HA group, observed here with multiple measures, is not a consequence of response strategy, test-taking ability, or attention deployment.

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Evoked PotentialsFactor Analysis, StatisticalFemaleHumansIntelligenceMemory, Short-TermPerceptual MaskingPitch DiscriminationReaction TimeStatistics, NonparametricClinical TrialJournal ArticleRandomized Controlled TrialResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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P Gordon Bazana, Robert M Stelmack. 2002. Intelligence and information processing during an auditory discrimination task with backward masking: an event-related potential analysis.. https://doi.org/10.1037/%2F0022-3514.83.4.998

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