Event-related brain potentials in psychological research: An updating

Abstract

Event-related brain potentials (ERPS) are presented in the context of the psychological research. Firstly, aspects such as how un ERP is obtained, their characteristic features, the way in which they are classified, or their main advantages with respect to another type of measures usually used in Psychology, are presented. Then, two cognitive processes that have been extensively investigated with this technique are briejly reviewed,
concretely, attention and language, and the recent research in the study of emotional processes is also commented. The main ERPs that have been used to study these psychological processes are discussed.