A large-scale replication of Eimer (1996): Can the N2pc be elicited by an isolated target?

Conférence Chapitre d'actes A large-scale replication of Eimer (1996): Can the N2pc be elicited by an isolated target? eng 2025-07-10 2025-07 author Constant Martin 0000-0001-9574-0674 407236 Section de psychologie (PSICO) author Mandal Ananya author Asanowicz Dariusz author Panek Bartłomiej author Kotlewska Ilona author Yamaguchi Motonori author Gillmeister Helge author Kerzel Dirk 0000-0002-2466-5221 603960 Section de psychologie (PSICO) author Luque David author Molinero Sara author Vázquez-Millán Antonio author Pesciarelli Francesca author Borelli Eleonora author Ramzaoui Hanane author Beck Melissa author Somon Bertille author Desantis Andrea author Castellanos M. Concepción author Martín-Arévalo Elisa author Manini Greta author Capizzi Mariagrazia author Gokce Ahu author Özer Demet author Soyman Efe author Yılmaz Ece author Eayrs Joshua O. author London Raquel E. author Steendam Tabitha author Frings Christian author Pastötter Bernhard author Szaszkó Bence author Baess Pamela author Ayatollahi Shabnamalsadat author León Montoya Gustavo A. author Wetzel Nicole author Widmann Andreas author Cao Liyu author Low Xueqi author Costa Thiago L. author Chelazzi Leonardo author Monachesi Bianca 830089 author Kamp Siri-Maria author Knopf Luisa author Itier Roxane J. author Meixner Johannes author Jost Kerstin author Botes André author Braddock Carley author Li Danqi author Nowacka Alicja author Quenault Marlo author Scanzi Daniele author Torrance Tamar author Corballis Paul M. author Laera Gianvito 0000-0002-0589-7334 914377 Section de psychologie (PSICO) author Kliegel Matthias 761733 Section de psychologie (PSICO) author Welke Dominik author Mushtaq Faisal author Pavlov Yuri G. author Liesefeld Heinrich R. 113065 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113065 https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167876025005616 The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation of an N2pc elicited by an isolated relevant target object, which was reported as Experiment 2 in Eimer (1996). All subsequent refined interpretations of the N2pc had to take this crucial finding into account. Despite its central role for neurocognitive attention research, there have been no direct replications and only few conceptual replications of this seminal work. Within the context of #EEGManyLabs, an international community-driven effort to replicate the most influential EEG studies ever published, the present study was selected due to its strong impact on the study of selective attention. We revisit the idea of the N2pc being an indicator of attentional selectivity by delivering a high powered direct replication of Eimer’s work through analysis of 779 datasets acquired from 22 labs across 14 countries. Our results robustly replicate the N2pc to form stimuli, but a direct replication of the more influential N2pc to color stimuli technically failed. We believe that this pattern not only sheds further light on the functional significance of the N2pc as an electrophysiological marker of attentional selectivity, but also highlights a methodological problem with selecting analysis windows a priori. By contrast, the consistency of observed ERP patterns across labs and analysis pipelines is stunning and this consistency is preserved even in datasets that were rejected for (ocular) artifacts, attesting the robustness of the ERP technique and the feasibility of large-scale EEG replication studies. Dewey 150 Dewey 618.97 Elsevier 108 Section de psychologie 71 14 Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d'études des vulnérabilités 0D6 false 596 Cognition visuelle 1282 Centre LIVES 633 Cognitive Aging Lab (CAL) Proceedings of the 22nd World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP 2025) of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) Asanowicz, D. 22nd World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP 2025) of the International Organization of Psychophysiology 08-11 July 2025 Krakow (Poland) 223a8e63-69f8-4e65-93fb-98814a1f46ad Proceedings chapter (Published version) Restricted 1-s2.0-S0167876025005616-main.pdf 159025 application/pdf 2897a91659cfaaf3c364bbdf5764fea5fb98eae9d4c1b1b324f9ef4daa2b26d8 restrictedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d'études des vulnérabilités

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