1.10: Key Takeaways and References

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Key Takeaways

This book focuses on applied ERP data analysis, using the open source EEGLAB and ERPLAB analysis packages. The packages are free, but they require Matlab to run.
Most of the analysis examples are from the ERP CORE, a set of 6 standardized ERP experiments.
You will almost certainly run into technical problems, but a major goal of the book is for you to learn to solve these problems. Appendix 2 provides a Troubleshooting Guide that will teach you some useful principles for solving technical problems.
Because ERPLAB is an EEGLAB plugin, you may have trouble figuring out where to find the routines you need and determining whether to use an EEGLAB routine or an ERPLAB routine. You can refer to Figure 1.1 to help you find what you’re looking for.

References

Berger, H. (1929). Ueber das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen. Archives Fur Psychiatrie Nervenkrankheiten, 87, 527–570.

Delorme, A., & Makeig, S. (2004). EEGLAB: an open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial EEG dynamics including independent component analysis. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 134, 9–21.

Lopez-Calderon, J., & Luck, S. J. (2014). ERPLAB: An open-source toolbox for the analysis of event-related potentials. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 213. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00213

Luck, S. J. (2012). Event-related potentials. In H. Cooper, P. M. Camic, D. L. Long, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf, & K. J. Sher (Eds.), APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology: Volume 1, Foundations, Planning, Measures, and Psychometrics (pp. 523–546). American Psychological Association.

Luck, S. J. (2014). An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique, Second Edition. MIT Press.

Rosenbaum, D. A., Vaughan, J., & Wyble, B. (2014). MATLAB for Behavioral Scientists (2nd Edition). Routledge.