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Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: Recording standards and publication criteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2000

T.W. PICTON ,
S. BENTIN ,
P. BERG ,
E. DONCHIN ,
S.A. HILLYARD ,
R. JOHNSON ,
G.A. MILLER ,
W. RITTER ,
D.S. RUCHKIN  and
M.D. RUGG
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T.W. PICTON
Affiliation:
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Canada
S. BENTIN
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
P. BERG
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
E. DONCHIN
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA
S.A. HILLYARD
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA
R. JOHNSON
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York, USA
G.A. MILLER
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA
W. RITTER
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
D.S. RUCHKIN
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
M.D. RUGG
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of London, England
M.J. TAYLOR
Affiliation:
Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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Abstract

Event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded from the human scalp can provide important information about how the human brain normally processes information and about how this processing may go awry in neurological or psychiatric disorders. Scientists using or studying ERPs must strive to overcome the many technical problems that can occur in the recording and analysis of these potentials. The methods and the results of these ERP studies must be published in a way that allows other scientists to understand exactly what was done so that they can, if necessary, replicate the experiments. The data must then be analyzed and presented in a way that allows different studies to be compared readily. This paper presents guidelines for recording ERPs and criteria for publishing the results.

Keywords

Event-related potentialsMethodsArtifactsMeasurementStatistics
Type
COMMITTEE REPORT
Information
Psychophysiology , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , March 2000 , pp. 127 - 152
Copyright
© 2000 Society for Psychophysiological Research

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