The temporal features of self-referential processing evoked by national flag.
The present study explored the neural correlates underlying the psychological processing of self-national flag. Event-related potentials were recorded for national flags while subjects performed a three-stimulus oddball task. The results showed that self-referential stimulus (self-national flag) elicited longer N1 latency and larger N2 amplitude than did non-self-referential stimuli (the familiar and unfamiliar flags). Furthermore, larger P3 amplitudes were showed for self-referential stimulus than for familiar and unfamiliar stimuli. Moreover, in terms of lateralization, the self-referential effect was more obvious on the left region sites. Thus, the present study showed that the self-referential effect not only occurred in late P3 processing stage, but also in early N1 and N2 processing stages, and further demonstrated a left laterality for self-referential processing by using the self-national flag as the self-relevant stimulus.
Department of Psychology, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China.
Wei
W
Fan
Youxue
Y
Zhang
Xia
X
Wang
Xiaoyan
X
Wang
Xiaoyi
X
Zhang
Yiping
Y
Zhong
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D055815:Young Adult