The component structure of the human event-related potentials.

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the component structure of the human event-related potentials (ERPs). Several years ago the world of human event-related potentials (ERPs) was a simple and comfortable place. There were evoked potentials related to sensation (N1), perception (P3), expectancy (CNV), and intention (BP). A variety of rather innocent theories held these components loosely together. Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of new components. The “exogenous” or stimulus-dependent components of the event-related potential can now be recorded from all levels of the afferent pathways. The “endogenous” components — those that can occur independently of external stimuli — have particularly multiplied. The late vertex potential following sensory stimuli consists of a series of waves — most prominently the N1-P2 components—that occur 50 and 250msec after a stimulus. This complex of waves is at first considered to be a non-specific response of frontal association cortex to incoming sensory information. Recent evidence has suggested that this response may consist of multiple subcomponent processes.

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