An introduction to the event-related potential technique /
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| Author / Creator: | Luck, Steven J. (Steven John), 1963- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xii, 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cognitive neuroscience |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5720425 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. An Introduction to Event-Related Potentials and Their Neural Origins
- Goals and Perspective
- A Bit of History
- A Simple Example Experiment
- A Real Experiment
- Reliability of ERP Waveforms
- Advantages and Disadvantages of the ERP Technique
- The Neural Origins of ERPs
- A Summary of Major ERP Components
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- 2. The Design and Interpretation of ERP Experiments
- Waveform Peaks versus Latent ERP Components
- What Is an ERP Component?
- Avoiding Ambiguities in Interpreting ERP Components
- Avoiding Confounds and Misinterpretations
- Examples from the Literature
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Summary of Rules, Principles, and Strategies
- 3. Basic Principles of ERP Recording
- The Importance of Clean Data
- Active and Reference Electrodes
- Electrical Noise in the Environment
- Electrodes and Impedance
- Amplifying, Filtering, and Digitizing the Signal
- 4. Averaging, Artifact Rejection, and Artifact Correction
- The Averaging Process
- Artifact Rejection and Correction
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- 5. Filtering
- Why Are Filters Necessary?
- What Everyone Should Know about Filtering
- Filtering as a Frequency-Domain Procedure
- Filtering as a Time-Domain Procedure
- Relationship Between the Time and Frequency Domains
- Time-Domain Distortions Produced by Filters
- Recommendations Revisited
- 6. Plotting, Measurement, and Analysis
- Plotting ERP Data
- Measuring ERP Amplitudes
- Measuring ERP Latencies
- Statistical Analyses
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- 7. ERP Localization
- The Big Picture
- The Forward Solution
- Equivalent Current Dipoles and the BESA Approach
- Distributed Source Approaches
- Can We Really Localize ERPs?
- Recommendations
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- 8. Setting Up an ERP Lab
- The Data Acquisition System
- The Data Analysis
- The Stimulus Presentation System
- Appendix: Basic Principles of Electricity
- Voltage, Current, and Resistance
- Ohm's Law
- Impedance
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Notes
- References
- Index
