title: Event-related brain potentials and psychology course mean examination grades.
abstract: Since 1965 research into the event-related brain potentials of the human electroencephalogram suggests that these EEG components are closely related to human information-processing activities. In this study were tested 21 normal adult university students (12 women, 9 men, ages 19 to 51 years) from the Alaskan subarctic, using both the auditory and visual event-related potential oddball paradigms. The event-related brain potential recordings were analyzed as explanatory variables of academic performance, as measured by the mean of a series of multiple-choice examinations covering lecture and text material. No high association between these brain electrophysiological measures and students' academic performance was observed. At best, one component explained 27.6% of the variation in mean examination grades.
authors.affiliation: University of Alaska.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bush
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Geist
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Emery
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012016:Reference Values; D012153:Retention, Psychology / Q000502:physiology; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology