Table 2.

Mean amplitudes for all ERPs across the three attention tasks.

	Perceptual task		Grammatical task		Emotion task
	Negative words	Neutral words	Negative words	Neutral words	Negative words	Neutral words
P1 (SD)	3.11	2.95	2.86	2.87	2.87	2.93
	(1.99)	(1.79)	(1.80)	(1.94)	(1.65)	(1.96)
N1 (SD)	− 2.36	− 2.59	− 3.01	− 2.91	− 3.02	− 3.09
	(1.57)	(1.75)	(1.95)	(2.01)	(1.75)	(1.65)
P2 (SD)	1.01	1.21	1.43	1.38	1.52	1.41
	(1.19)	(1.23)	(1.23)	(1.32)	(1.17)	(1.18)
EPN (SD)	− 2.17	− 2.37	− 2.41	− 2.11	− 2.57	− 2.36
	(1.89)	(1.86)	(1.88)	(1.88)	(1.92)	(1.99)
LPP (SD)	2.07	2.07	2.08	1.86	2.08	1.41
	(1.68)	(1.73)	(1.85)	(1.75)	(1.75)	(1.76)

Mean amplitudes are displayed in microvolts, averaged across the respective time windows and sensors of interest (see methods section below).