CLASSIFYING EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS FOR VALID AND PARADOX REASONING
Solomon Zannos, Fotios Giannopoulos, Dimitris Arabadjis, P. Rousopoulos, Panos C. Papageorgiou, Elias Koukoutsis, Constantin Papaodysseus, Charalabos Papageorgiou · 2012
In this paper, a new methodology is presented for comparing the ERPs of Aristotle's and Zeno's paradoxes. To achieve that, the ERPs of each such syllogism are grouped, by means of a new carefitting approach. This consists of a) application of time-domain and amplitude scaling to one ERP and b) optimal fit of two ERPs via minimization of a properly defined error function. Next, the optimally fit ERPs, which form a group, are averaged to obtain an ideal representative for the valid and paradoxes reasoning separately. These ideal representatives manifest essential statistical differences per subject for a considerable number of electrodes (18 electrodes). The latter supports the assumption that the underlying mental processes of the valid and paradoxes reasoning are, indeed, different and this difference reflects upon the corresponding ERPs and, in particular, upon the introduced ideal representatives.