Papers every new ERP researcher should read

  • Donchin, E. (1981). Surprise!...Surprise? Psychophysiology, 18, 493-513.
  • Donchin, E., & Heffley, E.F., III. (1978). Multivariate analysis of event-related potential data: A tutorial review. In D. Otto (Ed.), Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Event-Related Brain Potential Research (pp. 555-572). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Groppe, D. M., Urbach, T. P., & Kutas, M. (2011). Mass univariate analysis of event-related brain potentials/fields I: a critical tutorial review. Psychophysiology, 48, 1711-1725.
  • Keil, A., Debener, S., Gratton, G., Junhöfer, M., Kappenman, E.S., Luck, S. J., Luu, P., Miller, G., & C.M., Yee. (in press). Publication guidelines and recommendations for studies using electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography. Psychophysiology. 
  • Kiesel, A., Miller, J., Jolicoeur, P., & Brisson, B. (2008). Measurement of ERP latency differences: A comparison of single-participant and jackknife-based scoring methods. Psychophysiology, 45, 250-274. 
  • Picton, T. W., Bentin, S., Berg, P., Donchin, E., Hillyard, S. A., Johnson, R., Jr., . . . Taylor, M. J. (2000). Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: recording standards and publication criteria. Psychophysiology, 37, 127-152. 
  • Woldorff, M. (1993). Distortion of ERP averages due to overlap from temporally adjacent ERPs: Analysis and correction. Psychophysiology, 30, 98-119.

Broad reviews of the ERP technique

  • Buzsáki, G., Anastassiou, C. A., & Koch, C. (2012). The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 13, 407-420.
  • Coles, M. G. H. (1989). Modern mind-brain reading: Psychophysiology, physiology and cognition. Psychophysiology, 26, 251-269.
  • Coles, M. G. H., Smid, H., Scheffers, M. K., & Otten, L. J. (1995). Mental chronometry and the study of human information processing. In M. D. Rugg & M. G. H. Coles (Eds.), Electrophysiology of mind: Event-related brain potentials and cognition. (pp. 86-131). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Donchin, E. (1979). Event-related brain potentials: A tool in the study of human information processing. In H. Begleiter (Ed.), Evoked Brain Potentials and Behavior (pp. 13-88): Plenum Press.
  • Gaillard, A. W. K. (1988). Problems and paradigms in ERP research. Biological Psychology, 26, 91-109.
  • Hillyard, S. A., & Picton, T. W. (1987). Electrophysiology of cognition. In F. Plum (Ed.), Handbook of Physiology: Section 1. The Nervous System: Volume 5. Higher Functions of the Brain, Part 2 (pp. 519-584). Bethesda, MD: Waverly Press.
  • Kappenman, E.S., & Luck, S. J. (2012). ERP components: The ups and downs of brainwave recordings. In S. J. Luck & E. S. Kappenman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of ERP Components (pp. 3-30). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Kappenman, E. S., & Luck, S. J. (2016). Best Practices for Event-Related Potential Research in Clinical Populations. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 1, 110-115.
  • Kutas, M., & Dale, A. (1997). Electrical and magnetic readings of mental functions. In M. D. Rugg (Ed.), Cognitive neuroscience. Studies in cognition (pp. 197-242). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Lindsley, D. B. (1969). Average evoked potentials--achievements, failures and prospects. In E. Donchin & D. B. Lindsley (Eds.), Average Evoked Potentials: Methods, Results and Evaluations (pp. 1-43). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Luck, S.J. (2012). Event-related potentials. In H. Cooper, P. M. Camic, D. L. Long, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf & K. J. Sher (Eds.), APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology: Volume 1, Foundations, Planning, Measures, and Psychometrics. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Luck, S. J., & Kappenman, E. S. (2016). Electroencephalography and Event-Related Brain Potentials. In J. T. Cacioppo, L. G. Tassinary & G. G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of Psychophysiology, 4th Edition (pp. 74-100). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Norcia, A.M., Appelbaum, L.G., Ales, J.M, Cottereau, B.R., & Rossion, B. (2015). The steady-state visual evoked potential in vision research: A review. Journal of Vision, 15, 4. [Available here]
  • Sutton, S. (1969). The specification of psychological variables in average evoked potential experiments. In E. Donchin & D. B. Lindsley (Eds.), Averaged Evoked Potentials: Methods, Results and Evaluations (pp. 237-262). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Picton, T. W., & Stuss, D. T. (1980). The component structure of the human event-related potentials. In H. H. Kornhuber & L. Deecke (Eds.), Motivation, Motor and Sensory Processes of the Brain, Progress in Brain Research (pp. 17-49). North-Holland: Elsevier.
  • Vaughan, H. G., Jr. (1969). The relationship of brain activity to scalp recordings of event-related potentials. In E. Donchin & D. B. Lindsley (Eds.), Average Evoked Potentials: Methods, Results and Evaluations (pp. 45-75). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Books on ERPs and related topics

  • Cohen, M. X. (in press). Analyzing Neural Time Series Data: Theory and Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Donchin, E., & Lindsley, D.B. (Eds.). (1969). Average Evoked Potentials, Methods, Results, and Evaluations. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Handy, T.C. (Ed.). (2005). Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Handy, T.C. (Ed.). (2009). Brain Signal Analysis: Advances in Neuroelectric and Neuromagnetic Methods. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Luck, S. J., & Kappenman, E.S. (Eds.). (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Event-Related Potential Components. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Luck, S.J. (2014). An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique, Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Luck, S. J. (2009). 事件相关电位基础 (An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique, Simplified Chinese Translation). Shanghai: East China Normal University Press.
  • Nunez, P. L., & Srinivasan, R. (2006). Electric Fields of the Brain, Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Picton, T. W. (2011). Human Auditory Evoked Potentials. San Diego: Plural Publishing.
  • Regan, D. (1989). Human Brain Electrophysiology: Evoked Potentials and Evoked Magnetic Fields in Science and Medicine. New York: Elsevier.
  • Rugg, M.D., & Coles, M.G.H. (Eds.). (1995). Electrophysiology of Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.