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The messages in this paper will be transmitted mainly by its four figures. Smitty would have liked these figures, I think, because they show electrical responses generated in the brains of people as they listen to sounds and make auditory discriminations. In 1947, when he hired me to get some auditory physiology going at the Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory, there was no such thing as an averaging computer, and so it was technically impossible to create pictures like these. If it had been possible to make them I think Smitty would have wanted them made, because his admiration for the cat auditory system I worked on in his laboratory came nowhere near his love for the auditory system of man. And since what Smitty wanted he usually got, and what he liked to believe in he did something about, the experiments these figures summarize could very well have been done a quarter century ago in the basement of Memorial Hall.
I would like to believe that the knowledge that can be gleaned about sensory systems by studying evoked potentials is greater than zero.
S. S. Stevens, Science 1971, 172, 502.
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Squires, K. C., Hillyard, S. A., and Lindsay, P. H. Cortical potentials evoked by confirming and disconfirming feedback following an auditory discrimination. Perception and Psychophysics, 1973, 13, 25–31.
References. For 1): Evoked potential correlates of auditory signal detection. Hillyard, S. A., Squires, K. C., Bauer, J. W., and Lindsay, P. H., Science 172, 1971, 1357–1360. 2): See Note 5. 3): Eric Courchesne is presently working up his material on this for his Ph.D. thesis. 4): Unpublished evidence from our lab, and an inference gleaned from the publications listed in the bibliography of the paper cited in Note 5, where the various Es used one or another input modality.
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Galambos, R. (1974). The Human Auditory Evoked Response. In: Moskowitz, H.R., Scharf, B., Stevens, J.C. (eds) Sensation and Measurement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2245-3_20
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