Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) – An Up-to-Date Technique in Cognitive Neurosciences

Non-invasively recorded ERPs provide a superb temporal resolution that goes far beyond other up-to-date techniques such as fMRI, PET or TMS. Beyond that, in the auditory modality, the ERP technique offers the unique opportunity to differentiate between attentive behavioral processing and preattentive stimulus detection such as during intraoperative sedation. The current report summarizes a series of cognitive studies that, on the one hand, emphasize time-dependent cognitive functioning in the auditory domain and on the other hand, provide an insight into cognitive functioning where other techniques fail due to l…