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Sutton et al (1967) found that an emitted potential would occur in the absence of an auditory stimulus when the absence provided significant information. This result is extended to visual stimuli and is shown to be statistically highly significant. The contribution of eye-movement artifact to the results is shown to be negligible.
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Ruchkin, D.S., Sutton, S. Visual evoked and emitted potentials and stimulus significance. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 2, 144–146 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329226
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