Paper Info
Title
Is anterior N2 enhancement a reliable electrophysiological index of concealed information?
Abstract
Concealed information tests (CITs) are used to determine whether an individual possesses information about an item of interest. Event-related potential (ERP) measures in CITs have focused almost exclusively on the P3b component, showing that this component is larger when lying about the item of interest (probe) than telling the truth about control items (irrelevants). Recent studies have begun to examine other ERP components, such as the anterior N2, with mixed results. A seminal CIT study found that visual probes elicit a larger anterior N2 than irrelevants (Gamer and Berti, 2010) and suggested that this component indexes cognitive control processes engaged when lying about probes. However, this study did not control for potential intrinsic differences among the stimuli: the same probe and irrelevants were used for all participants, and there was no control condition composed of uninformed participants.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.08.042
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
Event-related potentials,N2,Concealed information,Deception,Cognitive control
Developmental psychology,Deception,Lying,Event-related potential,Cognitive psychology,Psychology,Stimulus (physiology),Cognition,P3b,Generality,Instrumental and intrinsic value
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
143
1053-8119
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giorgio Ganis1686.49
David Bridges200.34
Chun-Wei Hsu300.34
Haline E. Schendan4637.73