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If there is evidence of an overall effect of remote staring detection, then theoretically there should also be evidence of electrophysiological processing of this information in the brain. A series of three experiments examining the potential electrocortical correlates of remote staring detection are presented, followed by a fourth experiment to examine a potential artifact. The first experiment provided an initial exploration of this effect, finding primarily that “remote staring detection” has no evident time-locked processing associated with it on its own but rather acts upon other processes occurring at the same time. The second experiment provided evidence that this effect is not related specifically to face processing but can impact on other forms of processing as well. The third experiment uncovered evidence of a potential artifact that could explain the “remote staring effect,” which is verified in the final experiment. The overall results are discussed in light of an interesting and subtle psychophysics luminance effect that could potentially have an impact upon a wide variety of experiments that employ event-related measures of electrocortical processing.