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Operation Of Digital And Temporal Brain

Posted on:2014-07-04Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1265330401469683Subject:Basic Psychology
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From the quantity point of the view, the developments and changes of all the things in this world contain two basic processes, one is increase, and the other is decrease. The cognition of these two processes is the cognition of the subtraction and addition processes. Arithmetic is the typical expression of this processing. The present study focused on operation process, choose time and space processing, which have close relationship with number processing, originally investigated that whether there is a similar operation processing or not among number operation, time operation, and space operation.Experiment1investigated the relation between time operation and number operation. Using paired time operation, number operation (In Arabic number form), and dot operation (In number of dots form) task,18participants’Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded. The result showed that time operation has different feathers compare to number operation. Followed the same logic, experiment2investigated the relation between space operation and number operation. Also recorded18participants’ERPs when they were performing the paired space operation, number operation, and dot operation (the last two were same as experiment1) task. The result showed the same ERPs between space operation and dot operation, different with number operation. On the basis of experiment2, experiment3further investigated that whether split effect appeared in space operation. With the manipulation of the distance between given answer and the correct answer, the20participants ERPs were recorded. The result showed that the split effect in space operation is different with number operation. And this difference was deal to the separation of the wave forms in early processing stage between small and large split. On the basis of experiment2and3, experiment4investigated the relationship between number operation and space processing, when extend the space operation to space context processing. Using the production task, units were attached to number operation with the manipulation of space meaning and congruency between two operands, the reaction time and error rates of the oral report were recorded for28Canadian participants. The results indicated that space context could not affect production number operation in certain conditions.The series of the experiments indicated that, although believe in the hypothesis that a common operation processing responsible for number, time, and space operation is very attractive, it is far away from the truth. The present research showed that, in verifications, separate operation processing responsible for number, time and space operation. Meanwhile, the space and number operation have a close relationship. The present result indicated that human operation process has context dependency, and it prefers the extension of multiple magnitude systems and the Encoding-Complex Hypothesis. Specifically, the present research showed that time operation might have different processing, the space operation have the same processing with dot operation, and this same processing different with number operation. The split effect still exist in space operation, however, different with that the split effect in number processing didn’t exhibit difference in early component, the small and large split in space operation demonstrate different performances in early stage, supporting that people integrate the distance feather of the given answer and the whole equation together to solve the space verification problem. In addition, the present result also showed that space context could not affect production mental arithmetic in certain conditions.
Keywords/Search Tags:Operation, Number, Time, Space, ERP/Event-related potential
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