Human aggression is defined to any behavior directed toward another individual that is carried out with the proximate intent to cause harm (Anderson & Bushman, 2002) . 1) Researches on recent decades show that the majority of event-related potentials (ERPs) associated with aggression contained P50 induced by auditory gating, Error Related Negativity (ERN) produced by the progress of error information and later period of P300; 2) By functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, the

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... mechanism of aggression contained prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), amygdala, hypothalamus and so on. The progresses of ERP response and neural mechanism of aggression were bottom-up and top to bottom. In the future direction, we should make a comparison on animal and human aggression neural mechanism, and we should make ERP and fMRI integrate to research human aggression. Then the neural mechanism of instrumental-controlled aggression should be explored by these methods.