Table 1.
Analysis of topography for each ERP component and stimulus type.
| Targets | N1 | PN* | N2 | P3a | P3b | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effect | F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | ||||||||
| F > P | 5.23 | 0.027 | 0.10 | 8.54 | 0.005 | 0.16 | 1177.10 | <0.001 | 0.96 | |||||||||
| C > F/P | 22.97 | <0.001 | 0.33 | 74.68 | <0.001 | 0.62 | 39.88 | <0.001 | 0.46 | 53.32 | <0.001 | 0.54 | 8.04 | 0.007 | 0.15 | |||
| L < R | 5.52 | 0.023 | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||
| M > L/R | 39.79 | <0.001 | 0.46 | 11.47 | 0.001 | 0.20 | 133.25 | <0.001 | 0.74 | 54.00 | <0.001 | 0.54 | ||||||
| F > P × L < R | 39.08 | <0.001 | 0.46 | |||||||||||||||
| F > P × M > L/R | 33.76 | <0.001 | 0.42 | 15.44 | <0.001 | 0.25 | 46.21 | <0.001 | 0.50 | 173.27 | <0.001 | 0.79 | ||||||
| C > F/P × L < R | 14.77 | <0.001 | 0.24 | 57.34 | <0.001 | 0.55 | ||||||||||||
| C > F/P × M > L/R | 9.72 | 0.003 | 0.17 | 182.02 | <0.001 | 0.80 | 97.47 | <0.001 | 0.68 | 47.97 | <0.001 | 0.51 | ||||||
| Rare nontargets | P1 | N1 | N2 | P3 | nP3 | SW | ||||||||||||
| Effect | F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | ||||||
| F > P | 16.61 | <0.001 | 0.27 | 32.96 | <0.001 | 0.42 | 187.25 | <0.001 | 0.80 | 8.82 | 0.005 | 0.16 | 186.60 | <0.001 | 0.80 | |||
| C > F/P | 100.08 | <0.001 | 0.69 | 4.44 | 0.041 | 0.09 | 241.29 | <0.001 | 0.84 | 18.39 | <0.001 | 0.29 | 25.50 | <0.001 | 0.36 | |||
| L < R | 4.78 | 0.034 | 0.09 | 24.55 | <0.001 | 0.35 | 7.01 | 0.011 | 0.13 | |||||||||
| M > L/R | 448.00 | <0.001 | 0.91 | 22.92 | <0.001 | 0.33 | 61.82 | <0.001 | 0.57 | |||||||||
| F > P × L < R | 7.20 | 0.010 | 0.14 | |||||||||||||||
| F > P × M > L/R | 13.19 | 0.001 | 0.22 | 94.45 | <0.001 | 0.67 | 21.85 | <0.001 | 0.32 | 8.64 | 0.005 | 0.16 | 5.27 | 0.026 | 0.10 | |||
| C > F/P × L < R | 21.32 | <0.001 | 0.32 | 8.95 | 0.004 | 0.16 | 20.75 | <0.001 | 0.31 | 27.09 | <0.001 | 0.37 | ||||||
| C > F/P × M > L/R | 5.34 | 0.025 | 0.10 | 193.67 | <0.001 | 0.81 | 31.82 | <0.001 | 0.41 | 93.52 | <0.001 | 0.67 | 28.55 | <0.001 | 0.38 | |||
| Standards | P1 | N1 | P2 | SW | ||||||||||||||
| Effect | F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | ||||||||||
| F > P | 37.73 | <0.001 | 0.45 | 4.33 | 0.043 | 0.09 | 112.49 | <0.001 | 0.71 | |||||||||
| C > F/P | 24.81 | <0.001 | 0.35 | 7.25 | 0.010 | 0.14 | 9.91 | 0.003 | 0.18 | |||||||||
| L < R | 25.15 | <0.001 | 0.35 | 8.54 | 0.005 | 0.16 | ||||||||||||
| M > L/R | 17.27 | <0.001 | 0.27 | 119.13 | <0.001 | 0.72 | 20.15 | <0.001 | 0.30 | |||||||||
| F > P × L < R | 4.94 | 0.031 | 0.10 | 13.52 | 0.001 | 0.23 | ||||||||||||
| F > P × M > L/R | 31.45 | <0.001 | 0.41 | |||||||||||||||
| C > F/P × L < R | 10.27 | 0.002 | 0.18 | 38.74 | <0.001 | 0.46 | 53.76 | <0.001 | 0.54 | |||||||||
| C > F/P × M > L/R | 46.97 | <0.001 | 0.51 | |||||||||||||||
For each component, paired effect and statistic underlining indicates a reversal of that effect. Reversals of any two directional indicators within an effect indicate a statistically equivalent interpretation. Bolded p-values indicate dominant topography used as a guide to select sites analyzed. F, frontal; P, parietal; C, central; L, left; R, right; M, midline; < and > indicate direction of effect; and × denotes interactions. All F-tests are reported with (1, 46) degrees of freedom.
Analysis includes temporal sites.