Making Inferences Concerning Physiological Responses: A Reply to Rossiter, Silberstein, Harris and Nield

Shelley Aikman-Eckennrode and Stephen Crites

This article comments on 'Brain-imaging detection of visual scene encoding …' by Rossiter et al (2001), and proposes considerable caution before accepting their conclusions.

Making Inferences Concerning Physiological Responses: A Reply to Rossiter, Silberstein, Harris, and Nield

Stephen L. Crites, Jr.andShelley N. Aikman-EckenrodeUniversity of Texas at El Paso

Rossiter et al. (2001) present some intriguing data, but it seems appropriate to take a close look at their results and conclusions before everyone scraps paper-and-pencil memory measures and invests in equipment for recording electrical brain activity. At its core, their study is fairly simple. First, participants see a sequence of stimuli. Second, the researchers record and examine physiological responses (steady-state visually evoked potentials, or SSVEPs) associated with these stimuli. Third,...

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