Product Description
The event-related potential (ERP) technique in cognitive neuroscience allows scientists to observe human brain activity that reflects specific cognitive processes. In An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique, Steve Luck offers the first comprehensive guide to the practicalities of conducting ERP experiments in cognitive neuroscience and related fields, including affective neuroscience and experimental psychopathology. The book can serve as a guide for the classroom or the laboratory and as a reference for researchers who do not conduct ERP studies themselves but need to understand and evaluate ERP experiments in the literature. It summarizes the accumulated body of ERP theory and practice, providing detailed, practical advice about how to design, conduct, and interpret ERP experiments, and presents the theoretical background needed to understand why an experiment is carried out in a particular way. Luck focuses on the most fundamental techniques, describing them as they are used in many of the world's leading ERP laboratories. These techniques reflect a long history of electrophysiological recordings and provide an excellent foundation for more advanced approaches.

The book also provides advice on the key topic of how to design ERP experiments so that they will be useful in answering questions of broad scientific interest. This reflects the increasing proportion of ERP research that focuses on these broader questions rather than the "ERPology" of early studies, which concentrated primarily on ERP components and methods. Topics covered include the neural origins of ERPs, signal averaging, artifact rejection and correction, filtering, measurement and analysis, localization, and the practicalities of setting up the lab.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 7 reviews)

Excellent and Enlightening EEG introduction

The text is well written and packed with insightful commentary about EEG research. I think it is a great book for those of us trying to add EEG research to our toolbox of neuroimaging techniques. He is very forthright about his biases, so it seems clear about where folks may disagree with him. He provides a list of 12 items to keep in mind in order to design a good EEG study. This is a great introduction to EEG (though if you are focused on inverse solutions to obtain some spatial resolution of EEG data, this isn't the book for you; one of his well-described biases is against spatial localization). I highly recommend this book to folks curious about the underlying principles of EEG.
August 04, 2008

Good book for novice EEG experimenters

This is an excellent overview of EEG for the novice as well as the experienced EEG researcher. THe language is understandable and examples abundant.
April 03, 2007

Introduction to ERPs by Steve Luck

This book is a tremendous resource and its requried reading in my lab. Each chapter introduces important concepts in ERP research and discusses the pros and cons of common ERP practices. Everyone who conducts ERP research, reviews ERP studies, or wants to understand the fundamentals of the technique should read this book.
July 31, 2006

a must-read for cognitive researchers

Steven Luck has written an excellent introduction to the ERP technology. The book is informative, easily comprehensible, and full of wisdoms. One learns not only crucial issues involved in ERP, but also important experimental designs in cognitive neuroscience in general. This book is a must-read for cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists. It is a pity that something like this isn't available for fMRI, TMS, single-unit recording.
June 21, 2006

So understandable!

I'm a graduate student who is using ERPs in my research. I received this book from my supervisor after I've already become quite familiar with the technique. I would have saved myself alot of frustration if I'd read the book earlier. It's very easy to read and unlike a manual is actually a pleasure to read. I would recommend this book as a place to start for anyone using ERPs.
June 06, 2006

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