Using electroencephalography as a tool to understand auditory perception: Event-related and time-frequency analyses

Electroencephalography (EEG) largely reflects postsynaptic field potentials summed over many (hundreds of thousands of) neurons that are aligned in time and orientation. These electrical fields propagate in all directions such that determination of the sources of electrical fields measured at the surface of the head is much less accurate than localizations using fMRI. However, EEG can be measured with sub-millisecond timing resolution, offering …