From August 25 - 28, 1978 a conference on averaged evoked po- tentials
was held at Konstanz, West Germany. Research on human evoked potentials
has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and a series of international
conferences have served to maintain com- munication between active
workers in the field. Among the organiza- tions that have a tradition of
supporting such mUlti-national com- munication are the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization Scientific Affairs Division, the u.s. Office of
Naval Research and the German Research Society (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft). We have been fortunate to have the support of
all three. In the early stages of planning, a committee was formed
composed of Professors Rudolph Cohen (Konstanz), Otto Creutzfeldt
(Goettingen), John Desmedt (Brussels), A.M. Halliday (London), Anthony
Remond (Paris) and Herbert Vaughan (New York). A call for papers was
circulated as widely as possible, and this committee carried out the
difficult task of selecting a limited number of participants from a
large number of excellent abstracts. At the same time Professor Cohen of
the University of Konstanz was generous enough to shoulder the task of
playing host to the conference. His thoughtful arrangements contributed
enormously to the comfort of the participants. He and his colleagues
also engi- neered an ideal ambience for sharing of ideas and
observations, while the University of Konstanz generously provided
audio-visual support.