Issues and trends in the debate on discrete vs. continuous processing of information

TL;DR: The actual and potential benefits of a marriage between cognitive psychology and psychophysiology are reviewed and the lateralized readiness potential, a measure of electrical brain activity that is related to preparation for movement, is reviewed.

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TL;DR: It is argued that, if psychology is to be a mature quantitative science, then its primary theoretical aim should be to investigate systematic, functional relationships as they are manifested at the individual participant level and that, wherever possible, it should use methods that are optimized to identify relationships of this kind.

TL;DR: The response competition paradigm has been used to map the visual attentional field as a function of task demands and has also been found useful in the study of memory as mentioned in this paper, and has provided insights into the fast same effect on same-different judgements on comparison tasks.

TL;DR: Experimental manipulations revealed that P3b is related to the information processing resources required to alter a perceptual set and pSW to the resources required when abstract information permanently stored in memory must be retrieved.

TL;DR: The mutual relations among the reaction variables did not change after sleep loss which argues in favor of the robustness of these relations, and, consequently, of the applicability of linear stage models to reaction processes.

TL;DR: It was concluded that the latter alternative explains most of the data currently available and that the stimulus identification stage is the most likely candidate for the locus of the location effect.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out a choice reaction time task and measured the speed of the response in terms of reaction time (RT) and movement time (MT), and found that stimulus encoding, response selection, and response execution represent independent processing stages, and that FPD affects none of these stages.