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Field potentials, generated in the extracellular space of the brain, consist of rapid potential fluctuations and slow baseline shifts. The rapid waves represent the conventional electroencephalogram (EEG). Both phenomena—the slow baseline shifts and the rapid waves—can be recorded as so-called direct current (DC) potential (Andersen and Andersson, 1968; Caspers, 1974; Caspers, Speckmann, and Lehmenkühler, 1980, 1984; Creutzfeldt and Houchin, 1974; Speckmann and Caspers, 1979a; Speckmann and Walden, 1991).
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Speckmann, EJ., Altrup, U., Lücke, A., Köhling, R. (1994). Principles of Electrogenesis of Slow Field Potentials in the Brain. In: Heinze, HJ., Münte, T.F., Mangun, G.R. (eds) Cognitive Electrophysiology. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0283-7_13
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