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The late parietal event-related potential component is hierarchically sensitive to chunk tightness during chunk decomposition

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The current study analyzed event-related potentials (ERPs) associated with visuo-spatial transformation in order to examine how “chunk tightness” affects the difficulty of chunk decomposition problems. Participants completed a Chinese character decomposition task in three conditions according to the tightness of the to-be-decomposed chunk (tight vs. medium vs. loose). Behavioral data showed that performance became worse (longer reaction time, lower accuracy) as chunk tightness increased. ERP data showed that, as chunk tightness increased, the LPC exhibited a significant decrease at posterior electrode sites. The results indicate that chunk tightness might exert its primary effect on chunk decomposition difficulty by increasing the difficulty of visuo-spatial transformation, a process linked to the parietal LPC.

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This work was supported by MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (Grant No. 18YJC190033).

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Zhang, Z., Lu, Z., Warren, C.M. et al. The late parietal event-related potential component is hierarchically sensitive to chunk tightness during chunk decomposition. Cogn Neurodyn 14, 501–508 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-020-09590-w

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