Infant EEG and Event-related Potentials
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Author(s): M. de Haan (Ed.)
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781841695839
Format: hardback
334pp
Price: £59.95
Review Date: 13 June 2007
Review: Electroencephalograms (EEGs) have been used to study the central nervous system of infants for decades. In recent years there has been renewed interesting the use of EEG and event-related potentials (ERPs) to study the neural bases of human perception, cognition and emotion, as this is one of the few ways of studying brain activity in a healthy infant. Here the editor has gathered together the latest research and thoughts on the topic. There are chapters on: Methods of acquiring and analysing ERPs; Visual evoked potentials in infants; The development of face-sensitive ERPs during infancy; Visual attention and recognition memory in infancy; Auditory recognition memory in infancy; Development of mismatch negativity during infancy; The use of ERPs to predict development outcomes; Infant EEG and ERP in relation to social and emotional development; EEG and infant states; Investigating event-related oscillations in infancy; and Current and future directions in infant electrophysiology.