{"id":7897,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/event-related_-brain-_potentials_-erps\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:50","slug":"event-related_-brain-_potentials_-erps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/event-related_-brain-_potentials_-erps\/","title":{"rendered":"Event-related (brain) potentials (ERPs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These reflect brain activity generated by large populations of neurons acting synchronously and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholarpedia.org\/article\/Volume_conduction\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.scholarpedia.org\/article\/Volume_conduction&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">volume conducting<\/a> to the scalp surface, where the activity can be recorded non-invasively with small sensors or electrodes placed on the surface of the scalp. &nbsp;Following, for example the presentation of a visual stimulus on a computer monitor, positive- or negative-going deflections in the on-going EEG are referred to as ERP components and are thought to reflect distinct neural and mental operations in the processing of that stimulus or event. &nbsp;There are, for example, not only visually-evoked potentials (VEP), but also auditory-evoked potentials (AEP).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"brain_-neuro--_imaging\">Brain (neuro-) imaging<\/a>, <a href=\"contrast_sensitivity\">Contrast sensitivity<\/a>, <a href=\"electroencephalogram_-eeg-\">Electroencephalogram (EEG)<\/a>, <a href=\"evoked_activity_-or_responses-\">Evoked activity (or responses)<\/a>, <a href=\"mutual_gaze\">Mutual gaze<\/a>, <a href=\"n170\">N170<\/a>, Neuroimagiing studies, <a href=\"p400\">P400<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These reflect brain activity generated by large populations of neurons acting synchronously and then volume conducting to the scalp surface, where the activity can be recorded non-invasively with small sensors or electrodes placed on the surface of the scalp. &nbsp;Following, for example the presentation of a visual stimulus on a computer monitor, positive- or negative-going &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/event-related_-brain-_potentials_-erps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Event-related (brain) potentials (ERPs)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}