O registro do N400 como medida para formação de relações condicionais a partir do controle contextual

Abstract

Results obtained in recent experiments suggest that the registration of brain wave pattern called N400 provides a direct measure of the existing conditional relationship between stimuli of the same equivalence class. This project aims to use techniques for recording N400 in participants who will undergo a procedure for teaching contextual control. MTS procedure shall be used for conditional relationship between visual stimulus of a set A consisting of two stimuli (A1, A2) and a set B (B1, B2) submitted to contextual control of blue or red colors on the background of the stimuli presented. From the structure of the training structure, it will be checked before the same pair of stimuli, the N400 will occur under some circumstances (e.g., A1 and B1 shown in red background), but will not in other circumstances (e.g., A1 and B1 shown in blue background). These results allow us to meet physiological aspects related to studies of contextual control and may also be the beginning of a research program that will explore the future other phenomena that have been discussed related to this type of control way, such as the reorganization , expansion and reversal of classes.