Everything about P3a

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: P3aA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Temporal and Spectral Properties of the Auditory Mismatch Negativity and P3a Responses in SchizophreniaInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Winter's TaleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Updating P300: An integrative theory of P3a and P3bCited 7,187 times
5. Go sideways: P3bA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: P300 (neuroscience)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Updating P300: An integrative theory of P3a and P3b

  John Polich · 2007 · Clinical Neurophysiology · 7,187 citations

• Neuropsychology and neuropharmacology of P3a and P3b

  John Polich, José R. Criado · 2006 · International Journal of Psychophysiology · 641 citations

• P3a and P3b from typical auditory and visual stimuli

  Marco D Comerchero, John Polich · 1999 · Clinical Neurophysiology · 410 citations

• Stimulus context determines P3a and P3b

  Jun'ichi Katayama, John Polich · 1998 · Psychophysiology · 295 citations

• The cortical generators of P3a and P3b: A LORETA study

  U. Volpe, A. Mucci, P. Bucci · 2007 · Brain Research Bulletin · 251 citations

• Do N1/MMN, P3a, and RON form a strongly coupled chain reflecting the three stages of auditory distraction?

  János Horváth, István Winkler, Alexandra Bendixen · 2008 · Biological Psychology · 227 citations

• Duration Mismatch Negativity and P3a in First-Episode Psychosis and Individuals at Ultra-High Risk of Psychosis

  Rebbekah J. Atkinson, Patricia T. Michie, Ulrich Schall · 2012 · Biological Psychiatry · 198 citations

• P3a from Visual Stimuli: Typicality, Task, and Topography

  John Polich, Marco D. Comerchero · 2003 · Brain Topography · 189 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Temporal and Spectral Properties of the Auditory Mismatch Negativity and P3a Responses in Schizophrenia

  Nancy B. Lundin, Leah P. Burroughs, Paul D. Kieffaber · 2022 · Clinical EEG and Neuroscience · 14 citations

• Unveiling distinct representations of P3a in schizophrenia through two-stimulus and three-stimulus auditory oddball paradigms

  Chenguang Jiang, Jun Wang, Yifan Sun · 2025 · Schizophrenia Research · 10 citations

• Children’s inhibition skills are associated with their P3a latency—results from an exploratory study

  Tanja Linnavalli, Outi Lahti, Minna Törmänen · 2022 · Behavioral and Brain Functions · 10 citations

• P3a amplitude to trauma-related stimuli reduced after successful trauma-focused PTSD treatment

  Gail D. Tillman, Elizabeth Ellen Morris, Christina Bass · 2023 · Biological Psychology · 8 citations

• Conditional deviant repetition in the oddball paradigm modulates processing at the level of P3a but not MMN

  Nina Coy, Alexandra Bendixen, Sabine Grimm · 2024 · Psychophysiology · 8 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Winter's TaleWilliam Shakespeare · 1735
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceRobert M. Pirsig · 1974
• 📕Population, health and nutrition in the SahelAllan G. Hill · 1985
• Multimedia Storytelling for Digital Communicators in a Multiplatform WorldSeth Gitner · 1996
• The health care data guideLloyd P. Provost · 2011
• StreetwiseElijah Anderson · 1990
• Meeting the needs of second language learnersJudith Lessow-Hurley · 2003
• Zong!M. Nourbese Philip, Setaey Adamu Boateng · 2008

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🔗 Related topics

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