Auditorily elicited EEG desynchronization and synchronization: A review ofChristina M. Krause's doctoral thesis

The present paper reviews the doctoral dissertation of Christina M. Krause, in which auditorily elicited EEG desynchronization (ERD) and synchronizati on (ERS) was studied in five experiments. These experiments which were cond ucted by Krause and co-workers are the first in which the ERD-method was sy stematically applied to the analysis of the perception and processing of co mplex auditory stimuli. The main conclusion is that listening to sounds eli cits ERS, whereas cognitive and/or memory processes elicit ERD.