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High Density Event-related Potential Data Acquisition in Cognitive Neuroscience
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Cited by 5 •
2010
Event-related potential (ERP) recording is under utilized in Cognitive Neuroscience because data acquisition techniques are not readily available and this method often has poor spatial resolution. To foster the increased use of ERPs in Cognitive Neuroscience, the present article details key techniques involved in high density ERP data acquisition.
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Applications of EEG Neuroimaging Data: Event-related Potentials, Spectral Power, and Multiscale Entropy
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Cited by 30 •
2013
Neuroimaging researchers typically consider the brain's response as the mean activity across repeated experimental trials and disregard signal variability over time as "noise". However, it is becoming clear that there is signal in that noise. This article describes the novel method of multiscale entropy for quantifying brain signal variability in the time domain.
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Extracting Visual Evoked Potentials from EEG Data Recorded During fMRI-guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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2014
This paper describes a method for collecting and analyzing electroencephalography (EEG) data during concurrent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) guided by activations revealed with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). A method for TMS artifact removal and extraction of event related potentials is described as well as considerations in paradigm design and experimental setup.
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Data Interpretation
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2026
Research papers often present findings in the form of numerical tables, statistical outputs, and graphical representations. However, numerical results alone do not convey meaning unless researchers examine and place them in context. Data interpretation is the systematic process through which researchers transform raw information into clear, meaningful insights. It begins only after researchers have collected data through experiments, surveys, or observational studies. In their unprocessed form,...
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How Data are Classified: Numerical Data
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2023
Data that are countable or measurable in specific units are called numerical or quantitative data. Quantitative data are always numbers. Quantitative data are the result of counting or measuring the attributes of a population. Amount of money, pulse rate, weight, number of people living in a town, and number of students who opt for statistics are examples of quantitative data. Quantitative data may be either discrete or continuous. All quantitative data that take on only specific numerical...
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Time-locking aligns EEG activity to the onset of a defined sensory, cognitive, or behavioral event. Researchers then divide the continuous recording into corresponding time windows, or epochs, so voltage changes can be examined relative to that event. The resulting timing patterns help indicate when processing occurs, allowing behavioral conditions to be compared on a millisecond scale.
Amplitude describes the size of a voltage change, latency indicates when that change occurs after the event, and scalp distribution shows where it is observed across recording sites. Examining these measures together helps researchers characterize differences in neural processing associated with attention, perception, decisions, learning, errors, or rewards rather than relying on a single signal feature.
Averaging repeated, event-aligned trials makes activity consistently associated with the target event more visible across the recording. This process helps reveal event-related voltage patterns that may be difficult to identify in individual trials. Researchers can then compare component amplitude or latency across behavioral conditions, tasks, or individuals using a more stable signal.
Cleaning removes artifacts that can distort voltage changes and obscure activity related to the event under study. Because ERP interpretation depends on comparing component amplitude, latency, and scalp distribution, contamination can produce misleading differences between conditions. Artifact correction therefore supports more reliable identification of patterns linked with behavior, cognition, or the timing of neural processing.
A typical workflow records EEG during repeated sensory, cognitive, or behavioral events, marks the relevant event times, and divides the continuous signal into time-locked epochs. Researchers clean those epochs to address artifacts, average appropriate trials, and examine voltage components by amplitude, latency, and scalp distribution. These steps transform recordings into measures suitable for behavioral comparisons.
They are useful when researchers need to connect observable behavior with the timing of underlying neural processing. Applications described for this approach include studying attention, perception, decision-making, learning, and responses to errors or rewards. Because measurements can be compared across tasks, individuals, and behavioral conditions, ERP data help identify when related cognitive processes occur.
Researchers can align recordings to comparable events across tasks or conditions and assess whether component amplitude, latency, or scalp distribution changes. Such comparisons may show differences in neural processing associated with a behavioral manipulation, individual variation, or a particular response. The results complement observable behavior by providing information about the timing of processing that behavior alone may not show.