Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition, emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of multiple components and reflect a specific neurocognitive process. In the past, there was no single source that could be consulted to learn about all the major ERP components; learning about a single ERP component required reading dozens or even hundreds of separate journal articles and book chapters.The Oxford Handbook of Event-Related Potential Components fills this longstanding void with a detailed and comprehensive review of the major ERP components.Comprising 22 chapters by the field''s founders and leading researchers, this volume offers extensive coverage of all relevant topics:- the fundamental nature of ERP components, including essential information about how ERP components are defined and isolated- individual components, such as the N170, P300, and ERN- groups of related components within specifi