Preface; Part One: Conceptual Bases; 1. ERP Components: The Ups and Downs of Brainwave Recordings; Emily S. Kappenman and Steven J. Luck; 2. Beyond ERPs: Oscillatory Neuronal Dynamics; Marcel Bastiaansen, Ali Mazaheri, and Ole Jensen; 3. ERP Features and EEG Dynamics: An ICA Perspective; Scott Makeig and Julie Onton; Part Two: Commonly Studied ERP Components; 4. Sensory ERP Components; Hillel Pratt; 5. The N170: Understanding the Time Course of Face Perception in the Human Brain; Bruno Rossion and Corentin Jacques; 6. The Mismatch Negativity (MMN); Risto Naatanen and Kairi Kreegipuu; 7. Neuropsychology of P300; John Polich; 8. Negative slow waves as indices of anticipation: The Bereitschaftspotential, the Contingent Negative Variation, and the Stimulus Preceding Negativity; Cornelis H.M. Brunia, Geert J.M. van Boxtel, and Koen B.E. Bocker; 9. The Lateralized Readiness Potential; Fren T.Y. Smulders and Jeff O. Miller; 10. The Error-Related Negativity (ERN/Ne); William J. Gehring, Yanni Liu, Joseph M. Orr, and Joshua Carp; Part Three: ERP Components in Specific Cognitive Domains; 11. ERP Components and Selective Attention; Steven J. Luck and Emily S. Kappenman; 12. Electrophysiological Correlates of the Focusing of Attention within Complex Visual Scenes: N2pc and Related Electrophysiological Correlates; Steven J. Luck; 13. What ERPs Can Tell Us about Working Memory; Veronica B. Perez and Edward K. Vogel; 14. Electrophysiological Correlates of Episodic Memory Processes; Edward L. Wilding and Charan Ranganath; 15. Language-Related ERP Components; Tamara Y. Swaab, Kerry Ledoux, C. Christine Camblin, and Megan Boudewyn; 16. ERPs and the Study of Emotion; Greg Hajcak, Anna Weinberg, Annmarie MacNamara, and Dan Foti; Part Four: ERPs in Special Populations; 17. Event-related Potentials and Development; Donna Coch and Margaret M. Gullick; 18. The Components of Aging; David Friedman; 19. Abnormalities of Event Related Potential Components in Schizophrenia; Brian F. O'Donnell, Dean F. Salisbury, Margaret A. Niznikiewicz, Colleen A. Brenner, and Jenifer L. Vohs; 20. Event-related Brain Potentials in Depression: Clinical, Cognitive, and Neurophysiologic Implications; Gerard E. Bruder, Jurgen Kayser, and Craig E. Tenke; 21. Alterations of ERP Components in Neurodegenerative Diseases; Rolf Verleger; 22. Homologues of Human ERP Components in Nonhuman Primates; Geoffrey F. Woodman