Main description:

This volume presents the first systematic overview of how event-related brain potential (ERP), cognitive electroencephalography (EEG), and functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) measures reflect the mental events arising from changes in sensory stimulation. The contents are fresh, the literature distillations highly informative, and the range of topics extremely useful for cognitive neuroscientists, psychologists, and researchers.

Contents:

Contributors. Introduction.
- Mismatch Negativity. 1. Auditory environment and change detection as indexed by the mismatch negativity (MMN); A. Kujala, R. Natanen. 2. Event-related brain potential indices of involuntary attention to auditory stimulus changes; K. Alho, C. Escera, E. Schroeger. 3. Visual mismatch negativity; D.J. Heslenfeld. 4. Change detection in complex auditory environment: beyond the oddball paradigm; I. Winkler.
- P3A and P3B. 5. Theoretical overview of P3A and P3B; J. Polich. 6. Lateral and orbital prefrontal cortex contributions to attention; K.M. Hartikainen, R.T. Knight. 7. ERP and fMRI correlates of target and novelty processing; B. Opitz.
- EEG, Memory and Gamma. 8. EEG and ERP imaging of brain function; A. Gevins, M. Smith, L.K. McEvoy. 9. EEG theta, memory and sleep; W. Klimesch. 10. Gamma activity in the human EEG; C.S. Herrmann. Index.