Several earlier experiments have indicated that that this so-called "expectancy wave" arises when subjects consciously anticipate making a planed movement, or when they are about to receive a conditioned reward or punishment.
Prior studies indicate that this so-called expectancy wave arises when volunteers con- sciously anticipate making a planned movement or receiving a conditioned reward or punish- ment.
By pairing subliminal information cues with mild electric shock, Wong demonstrated not only classical conditioning effects, but the presence of the "expectancy wave.
Evoked potentials, expectancy wave, and skin resistance in depressed patients and healthy controls.
[Studies of the expectancy wave (CNV) in patients with interruption of the thalamo-prefrontal interconnnection pathways caused by psychosurgical prefrontal lobotomy operations]Zappoli R, Denoth F, Papini M, Rossi L, Pasquinelli A, Martinetti MG, Guerri S.