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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| An Introduction to Event-Related Potentials and Their Neural Origins | |
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| Goals and Perspective | |
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| A Bit of History | |
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| A Simple Example Experiment | |
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| A Real Experiment | |
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| Reliability of ERP Waveforms | |
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| Advantages and Disadvantages of the ERP Technique | |
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| The Neural Origins of ERPs | |
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| A Summary of Major ERP Components | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Design and Interpretation of ERP Experiments | |
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| Waveform Peaks versus Latent ERP Components | |
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| What Is an ERP Component? | |
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| Avoiding Ambiguities in Interpreting ERP Components | |
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| Avoiding Confounds and Misinterpretations | |
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| Examples from the Literature | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Summary of Rules, Principles, and Strategies | |
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| Basic Principles of ERP Recording | |
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| The Importance of Clean Data | |
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| Active and Reference Electrodes | |
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| Electrical Noise in the Environment | |
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| Electrodes and Impedance | |
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| Amplifying, Filtering, and Digitizing the Signal | |
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| Averaging, Artifact Rejection, and Artifact Correction | |
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| The Averaging Process | |
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| Artifact Rejection and Correction | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Filtering | |
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| Why Are Filters Necessary? | |
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| What Everyone Should Know about Filtering | |
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| Filtering as a Frequency-Domain Procedure | |
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| Filtering as a Time-Domain Procedure | |
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| Relationship Between the Time and Frequency Domains | |
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| Time-Domain Distortions Produced by Filters | |
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| Recommendations Revisited | |
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| Plotting, Measurement, and Analysis | |
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| Plotting ERP Data | |
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| Measuring ERP Amplitudes | |
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| Measuring ERP Latencies | |
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| Statistical Analyses | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| ERP Localization | |
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| The Big Picture | |
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| The Forward Solution | |
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| Equivalent Current Dipoles and the BESA Approach | |
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| Distributed Source Approaches | |
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| Can We Really Localize ERPs? | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Setting Up an ERP Lab | |
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| The Data Acquisition System | |
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| The Data Analysis | |
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| The Stimulus Presentation System | |
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| Appendix: Basic Principles of Electricity | |
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| Voltage, Current, and Resistance | |
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| Ohm's Law | |
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| Impedance | |
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| Electricity and Magnetism | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |