Todd C. Handy (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262013086
- eISBN:
- 9780262258876
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262013086.001.0001
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Techniques
Cognitive electrophysiology concerns the study of the brain’s electrical and magnetic responses to both external and internal events. These can be measured using electroencephalograms (EEGs) or ...
More
Cognitive electrophysiology concerns the study of the brain’s electrical and magnetic responses to both external and internal events. These can be measured using electroencephalograms (EEGs) or magnetoencephalograms (MEGs). With the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging, another method of tracking brain signals, the tools and techniques of EEG and MEG data acquisition and analysis have been developing at a similarly rapid pace, and this book offers an overview of key recent advances in cognitive electrophysiology. The chapters highlight the increasing overlap in EEG and MEG analytic techniques, describing several methods applicable to both; discuss recent developments, including reverse correlation methods in visual-evoked potentials and a new approach to topographic mapping in high-density electrode montage; and relate the latest thinking on design aspects of EEG/MEG studies, discussing how to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio as well as statistical developments for maximizing power and accuracy in data analysis using repeated-measure ANOVAS.Less
Cognitive electrophysiology concerns the study of the brain’s electrical and magnetic responses to both external and internal events. These can be measured using electroencephalograms (EEGs) or magnetoencephalograms (MEGs). With the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging, another method of tracking brain signals, the tools and techniques of EEG and MEG data acquisition and analysis have been developing at a similarly rapid pace, and this book offers an overview of key recent advances in cognitive electrophysiology. The chapters highlight the increasing overlap in EEG and MEG analytic techniques, describing several methods applicable to both; discuss recent developments, including reverse correlation methods in visual-evoked potentials and a new approach to topographic mapping in high-density electrode montage; and relate the latest thinking on design aspects of EEG/MEG studies, discussing how to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio as well as statistical developments for maximizing power and accuracy in data analysis using repeated-measure ANOVAS.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110319
- eISBN:
- 9780300128338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110319.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter explores the form and function of novels of consciousness. Where novels like Tom Jones and Peregrine Pickle focused on the events that happen in the world, other authors instead focused ...
More
This chapter explores the form and function of novels of consciousness. Where novels like Tom Jones and Peregrine Pickle focused on the events that happen in the world, other authors instead focused more intensely on the internal event. Novelists sought the use of letter writing, for example, as a device through which to convey the conscious thoughts of a character. Thus many of the century's fictions took epistolary form—the epistolary novel. Samuel Richardson's Pamela, for example, is a novel that assembles the personal letters written by a single person. The works Familiar Letters and the History of Lady Julia Mandeville present both sides of the correspondence, whereas works such as Humphry Clinker present letters from several different correspondences. The epistolary novel, however, is merely a subcategory of the novel of consciousness. The rest of the chapter is devoted to mapping out the differences that set novels of consciousness apart from novels of development.Less
This chapter explores the form and function of novels of consciousness. Where novels like Tom Jones and Peregrine Pickle focused on the events that happen in the world, other authors instead focused more intensely on the internal event. Novelists sought the use of letter writing, for example, as a device through which to convey the conscious thoughts of a character. Thus many of the century's fictions took epistolary form—the epistolary novel. Samuel Richardson's Pamela, for example, is a novel that assembles the personal letters written by a single person. The works Familiar Letters and the History of Lady Julia Mandeville present both sides of the correspondence, whereas works such as Humphry Clinker present letters from several different correspondences. The epistolary novel, however, is merely a subcategory of the novel of consciousness. The rest of the chapter is devoted to mapping out the differences that set novels of consciousness apart from novels of development.
