Steven J. Luck, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Mind & Brain at the University of California, Davis. Emily S. Kappenman is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Mind & Brain, University of California, Davis.

This is a very valuable book with a lot of new material on the subject of event-related potentials or ERPs, a new and exciting research area in the science of the human brain. Its chief value is that it is the first book where all of the relevant work on a single ERP can be found. And the major ERPs are covered in this volume. The two editors and all the 47 contributors are to be congratulated for their excellent work on this outstanding book.

• Preface ; Part One: Conceptual Bases ; 1: ERP Components: The Ups and Downs of Brainwave Recordings ; Emily S. Kappenman & Steven J. Luck ; 2: Beyond ERPs: Oscillatory Neuronal Dynamics ; Marcel Bastiaansen, Ali Mazaheri, and Ole Jensen ; 3: ERP Features and EEG Dynamics: An ICA Perspective ; Scott Makeig and Julie Onton ; Part Two: Commonly Studied ERP Components ; 4: Sensory ERP Components ; Hillel Pratt ; 5: The N170: Understanding the Time Course of Face Perception in the Human Brain ; Bruno Rossion & Corentin Jacques ; 6: The Mismatch Negativity (MMN) ; Risto Naatanen and Kairi Kreegipuu ; 7: Neuropsychology of P300 ; John Polich ; 8: Negative slow waves as indices of anticipation: The Bereitschaftspotential, the Contingent Negative Variation, and the Stimulus Preceding Negativity ; Cornelis H.M. Brunia, Geert J.M. van Boxtel, Koen B.E. Bocker ; 9: The Lateralized Readiness Potential ; Fren T.Y. Smulders & Jeff O. Miller ; 10: The Error-Related Negativity (ERN/Ne) ; William J. Gehring, Yanni Liu, Joseph M. Orr, Joshua Carp ; Part Three: ERP Components in Specific Cognitive Domains ; 11: ERP Components and Selective Attention ; Steven J. Luck & Emily S. Kappenman ; 12: Electrophysiological Correlates of the Focusing of Attention within Complex Visual Scenes: N2pc and Related Electrophysiological Correlates ; Steven J. Luck ; 13: What ERPs can tell us about Working Memory ; Veronica B. Perez & Edward K. Vogel ; 14: Electrophysiological correlates of episodic memory processes ; Edward L. Wilding, Charan Ranganath ; 15: Language-Related ERP Components ; Tamara Y. Swaab, Kerry Ledoux, C. Christine Camblin & Megan Boudewyn ; 16: ERPs and the Study of Emotion ; Greg Hajcak, Anna Weinberg, Annmarie MacNamara, Dan Foti ; Part Four: ERPs in Special Populations ; 17: Event-related potentials and development ; Donna Coch and Margaret M. Gullick ; 18: The Components of Aging ; David Friedman ; 19: Abnormalities of Event Related Potential Components in Schizophrenia ; Brian F. O'Donnell, Dean F. Salisbury, Margaret A. Niznikiewicz, Colleen A. Brenner, Jenifer L. Vohs ; 20: Event-related brain potentials in depression: Clinical, cognitive and neurophysiologic implications ; Gerard E. Bruder, Jurgen Kayser, and Craig E. Tenke ; 21: Alterations of ERP Components in Neurodegenerative Diseases ; Rolf Verleger ; 22: Homologues of human ERP components in nonhuman primates ; Geoffrey F. Woodman

Steven J. Luck, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Mind & Brain at the University of California, Davis. Emily S. Kappenman is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Mind & Brain, University of California, Davis.

This is a very valuable book with a lot of new material on the subject of event-related potentials or ERPs, a new and exciting research area in the science of the human brain. Its chief value is that it is the first book where all of the relevant work on a single ERP can be found. And the major ERPs are covered in this volume. The two editors and all the 47 contributors are to be congratulated for their excellent work on this outstanding book.

• Preface ; Part One: Conceptual Bases ; 1: ERP Components: The Ups and Downs of Brainwave Recordings ; Emily S. Kappenman & Steven J. Luck ; 2: Beyond ERPs: Oscillatory Neuronal Dynamics ; Marcel Bastiaansen, Ali Mazaheri, and Ole Jensen ; 3: ERP Features and EEG Dynamics: An ICA Perspective ; Scott Makeig and Julie Onton ; Part Two: Commonly Studied ERP Components ; 4: Sensory ERP Components ; Hillel Pratt ; 5: The N170: Understanding the Time Course of Face Perception in the Human Brain ; Bruno Rossion & Corentin Jacques ; 6: The Mismatch Negativity (MMN) ; Risto Naatanen and Kairi Kreegipuu ; 7: Neuropsychology of P300 ; John Polich ; 8: Negative slow waves as indices of anticipation: The Bereitschaftspotential, the Contingent Negative Variation, and the Stimulus Preceding Negativity ; Cornelis H.M. Brunia, Geert J.M. van Boxtel, Koen B.E. Bocker ; 9: The Lateralized Readiness Potential ; Fren T.Y. Smulders & Jeff O. Miller ; 10: The Error-Related Negativity (ERN/Ne) ; William J. Gehring, Yanni Liu, Joseph M. Orr, Joshua Carp ; Part Three: ERP Components in Specific Cognitive Domains ; 11: ERP Components and Selective Attention ; Steven J. Luck & Emily S. Kappenman ; 12: Electrophysiological Correlates of the Focusing of Attention within Complex Visual Scenes: N2pc and Related Electrophysiological Correlates ; Steven J. Luck ; 13: What ERPs can tell us about Working Memory ; Veronica B. Perez & Edward K. Vogel ; 14: Electrophysiological correlates of episodic memory processes ; Edward L. Wilding, Charan Ranganath ; 15: Language-Related ERP Components ; Tamara Y. Swaab, Kerry Ledoux, C. Christine Camblin & Megan Boudewyn ; 16: ERPs and the Study of Emotion ; Greg Hajcak, Anna Weinberg, Annmarie MacNamara, Dan Foti ; Part Four: ERPs in Special Populations ; 17: Event-related potentials and development ; Donna Coch and Margaret M. Gullick ; 18: The Components of Aging ; David Friedman ; 19: Abnormalities of Event Related Potential Components in Schizophrenia ; Brian F. O'Donnell, Dean F. Salisbury, Margaret A. Niznikiewicz, Colleen A. Brenner, Jenifer L. Vohs ; 20: Event-related brain potentials in depression: Clinical, cognitive and neurophysiologic implications ; Gerard E. Bruder, Jurgen Kayser, and Craig E. Tenke ; 21: Alterations of ERP Components in Neurodegenerative Diseases ; Rolf Verleger ; 22: Homologues of human ERP components in nonhuman primates ; Geoffrey F. Woodman