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Introduction to the Event-related Potential Technique (COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE) 1st Edition

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The event-related potential (ERP) technique in cognitive neuroscience allowsscientists to observe human brain activity that reflects specific cognitive processes. In An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique, Steve Luck offers the firstcomprehensive guide to the practicalities of conducting ERP experiments in cognitive neuroscienceand related fields, including affective neuroscience and experimental psychopathology. The book canserve as a guide for the classroom or the laboratory and as a reference for researchers who do notconduct ERP studies themselves but need to understand and evaluate ERP experiments in theliterature. 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 thetheoretical 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 theworld's leading ERP laboratories. These techniques reflect a long history of electrophysiologicalrecordings and provide an excellent foundation for more advanced approaches.

Thebook also provides advice on the key topic of how to design ERP experiments so that they will beuseful in answering questions of broad scientific interest. This reflects the increasing proportionof 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 neuralorigins of ERPs, signal averaging, artifact rejection and correction, filtering, measurement andanalysis, localization, and the practicalities of setting up the lab.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MIT Press; 1st edition (January 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 374 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262621967
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262621960
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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Steven J. Luck is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where he runs the Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Center for Mind & Brain. He received a Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of California, San Diego in 1993, joined the Psychology Department at the University of Iowa in 1994, and then moved to UC Davis in 2006. Dr. Luck’s research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention and memory in typical adults and on neurocognitive dysfunction in people with psychiatric and neurological disorders. Dr. Luck is also a leading expert on the use of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to measure the neural activity underlying cognition, and he conducts workshops on this technique that have provided training to over 1500 scientists around the world. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is the winner of many awards, including the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences. He has published over 200 books, book chapters, and journal articles.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2013
    This text provided me with an extremely accessible & enjoyable introduction to ERP research. Before reading this book I had a strong background in the design of behavioral experiments but absolutely no background in neurocognition/neuroimaging. The author did a tremendous job of emphasizing the important themes without sacrificing the details, and I now have the background to understand the methodology/results sections of ERP papers and to think about how I can use ERP experiments in my own research.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2015
    This is an excellent book that explains the details of how to build an ERP lab from scratch in clear terms. The part about CRTs seemed a little outdated so I purchased the 2014 edition as soon as it came out and found the supplementary materials of the new release to be helpful. The discussions of experimental design and analysis are very well done.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2012
    Nowadays, many ERP researchers start their PhDs in labs that are fully set-up with established protocols, so a lot of the basics of the technique are glossed over during training. This book offers an excellent resource to researchers in the basic principles of ERP research. It covers basic and more complex information in easily understood language. As an established researcher, I often turn to it as a resource, and all my students are urged to read this book at the start of their studies.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2014
    The book contains crucial and fundamental methodological, processing and practical advice for newcomers with focus on the understanding of the critical difficulties of ERP research. The author provides great deal of experience.
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2018
    Used in my graduate-level course. Excellent resource!
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2006
    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.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2016
    Contains good, easy to understand coverage of how to set up an ERP experiment and how to interpret the data collected.
  • Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2009
    Steve Luck is one of the foremost experts in Event-Related Potential Techniques. This book provides an excellent introduction for individuals who want to gain a better understanding of the basic components of ERP, methods for collecting, filtering, and analyzing data, and the best way to set up your own ERP lab! He of course is a bit biased towards certain methods and is admittedly negative about source localization - but he's very open about his biases and provides references to other opinions for the interested reader.

    A must read if you're learning EEG and/or ERP!
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  • Hanna
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must-have
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2014
    If you ever work with event related potentials be it using MEG or EEG do read this book. It's a very enjoyable read; it's easy to read and not too technical for a first timer, it explains all the major problems in analysis and preprocessing you might face and how to get around them. I highly recommend this book - I bought this when I had my first job as a lab assistant before my final year as an undergraduate and I still use it as a reference as a PhD student - I also recommend it without hesitation to anyone who enters our lab or expresses any interest in EEG research.
  • Nicole Sear
    1.0 out of 5 stars so much for new...
    Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2013
    I purchased this for my university class and i was reading it, I found out it was missing pages 51-58. So much for a new copy through amazon...
  • P. Rys
    5.0 out of 5 stars EEG-ERP introductions
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2014
    I'm a first master student psychology and I needed an introductory course in ERP and EEG, this book was a great way to get a feeling for most of these types o experiments. The writing style is very fluent and sometimes witty, the book starts by explaining the real foundations and every subsequent chapter builds further upon the previous and gets a bit more complex. This makes the final chapters on analysis a little bit tricky, however it is definitely possible to form a coherent view.
  • Moonwilton
    5.0 out of 5 stars Useful book, even went on the course!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2013
    This book is the EEG bible, I don't know a researcher without it! I'd also recommend the ERP boot camp conducted by the author Steve Luck, really puts the book in a more practical light.
  • barbara
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2016
    To complicate...