FACULTY and AFFLIATED SCIENTISTS
Walter Ritter
Event-related Potentials
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Professor Emeritus Walter Ritter collaborates on various projects with Diana Deacon, and also maintains an independent laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine which is in the Bronx. His research uses evoked potentials to investigate cognitive processes. His main focus currently is on a particular evoked-potential phneomenon known as mismatched negativity, which he uses to study the transient acoustic memory associated with what cognitive psychologists call sensory memory. Questions about the memory that are studied include its duration, its capacity, how information is stored in memory, and how it is affected by input from other sensory modalities, particularly vision.