Psychology Today | 24.11.2025 11:38
The name of my lab during my fellowship at NIH 20 years ago was the Human Motor Control Section, and it used various electrical tools to study the physiology behind human movements. I was never a gadget person, so the tangle of monitors, colored cords, amplifiers, and alligator clips felt, at times overwhelming. But one test was simple enough: eliciting the Bereitschaftspotential or the “Readiness Potential (RP)” through electroencephalogram (EEG).
