Cognitive Psychophysiology: Event-Related Potentials and the Study of Cognition

Originally published in 1984, Cognitive Psychophysiology: Event-related Potentials and the Study of Cognition is the first volume to come out of The Carmel Conferences: designed to examine in detail the assertion that the endogenous components of the Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP) can serve as a tool in the analysis of cognition. The intent of this book was to examine on a rather broad front the claims of cognitive psychophysiology to a niche in the domain of cognitive science. Discussions included: selective attention; the ERP and decision and memory processes; preparatory processes; mental chronometry; perceptual processes; individual differences and clinical applications. It provides an interesting snapshot of the status of ERP research just as it was venturing assertively into cognitive science.

Emanuel Donchin

Preface. List of Participants. Charge to Panels. 1. Recording and Interpreting Event-Related Potentials Truett Allison 2. Current Research in the Study of Selective Attention Michael I. Posner 3. Event-Related Potentials and Selective Attention Steven A. Hillyard 4. Report of Panel I: Selective Attention M. Posner (chair), R. Harter, S. Hillyard, A. Treisman 5. Dissociation Between Electrophysiology and Behavior - A Disaster or a Challenge? Emanuel Donchin 6. Theories and Models in Cognitive Psychology Donald A. Norman 7. Report of Panel II: The ERP and Decision and Memory Processes T. Picton (chair), E. Donchin, J. Ford, D. Kahneman, D. Norman 8. Report of Panel III: Preparatory Processes W. Ritter (chair), S. Kelso, M. Kutas, R. Shiffrin 9. The Timing of Mental Acts William Chase 10. Report of Panel IV: Mental Chronometry W. Chase (chair), G. McCarthy, K. Squires, R. Schvaneveldt 11. ERPs and Psychophysics David Regan 12. Report of Panel V: Perceptual Processes D. Regan (chair), T. Allison, L. Cooper, S. Palmer 13. Report of Panel VI: Individual Differences and Clinical Applications M. Oscar-Berman (chair), E. Callaway, N. Squires, E. Zaidel. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.