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- Title
For Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology: Risto Náátánen.
- Authors
Ritter, Walter
- Abstract
This article focuses on professor Risto Näätänen. At the thirty-fifth annual meeting of Society for Psychophysiological Research in 1996, the award for distinguished contribution to psychophysiology was presented to Näätänen. Two of Risto's great talents manifested themselves in his doctoral dissertation. In the early 1960s, a number of laboratories began using event-related potentials to study selective attention. About 10 studies had been published using a similar experimental design. As a doctoral student during 1965-1966, Risto examined these studies and thought he detected a flaw in the experimental design. He found that the relevant but not irrelevant stimuli were preceded by a slow negative wave and flattened electroencephalogram, both of which indicated increased cerebral excitability. One of Risto's special talents exhibited in his dissertation was his ability to be a critic, the capacity to sift through the evidence and find what is useful and what is not.
- Publication
Psychophysiology, 1996, Vol 33, Issue 5, p483
- ISSN
0048-5772
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8986.1996.tb02424.x