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The focus of this study was discriminating the eyewitness memory using single-trial electroencephalogram (EEG) evoked by memory cues composed of multiple words. We reanalyzed the event-related potentials (ERP) data (n=69) from Ham, Kim, & Jeong (2018) studies, and two-class classification was conducted to distinguish correctly witnessed objects vs unwitnessed objects trials using linear support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. The single-trial classification analysis showed the post-stimulus EEG activity between 800 to 850 ms was the most accurate interval for the memory classification (57.43%). This result suggests that the EEG during memory retrieval can be used to determine whether or not it is witnessed. Finally, we discussed some points to consider when using EEG for eyewitness memory classification.
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