title: [Event-related potentials and the evaluation of selective attention processes: a review of recent trends in this field (author's transl)].
abstract: The aim of this paper was to briefly review the use of normal human Event Related Potentials (ERP) in the evaluation of processes of diffuse and selective attention. The reviewed results from recent experiments concern the exogeneous components of the evoked potential (in particular N120-P200), the endogeneous components N200-P300, P600 (or the so called "Emitted Potentials"), the motor related potentials and the CNV. The behavioural correlates of each of these components, as well as their relationships with the various stages of information processing during perceptivo-motor tasks implying decision making, were emphasized. As a conclusion, the psychiatric applications of this type of electrophysiological research was discussed; moreover the need of its development in the field of neuro-psychology was underlined.
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology*
vernacular_title: Possibilités et limites des potentiels évoqués pour l'analyse des états de veille et des processus d'attention sélective. Revue des données récentes.