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Chunk #30 — FIRST QUESTIONS AND DEBATES (1989–1998) — Recognition Memory

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Thirty years and counting: finding meaning in the N400 component of the event-related brain potential (ERP).
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(whereas LPC modulations were yoked to recollection). The N400 also played a role in emerging studies using back-sorting paradigms to examine encoding-related brain activity that predicted later memory performance (a procedure later adopted by fMRI researchers, e.g., Jordan et al 1995). This serves as yet another example of the power of electrophysiology to get at aspects of cognition largely impenetrable with behavioral measures.