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PSY516 Schedule, Assignments, Problem Sets, and Class Material

PSYC 596L Schedule
Date Topics Chapters Resources
26-Jan Lecture overview, topics, and chapters; Introduction to MATLAB
2-Feb MATLAB Tutorial 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
9-Feb Practicalities of EEG measurement and experimental design
Preprocessing steps necessary and useful for advanced data analysis
EEG artifacts: their detection, influence, and removal
Overview of time-domain EEG analyses
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7
8
9




16-Feb The dot product and convolution
The discrete time Fourier transform, the FFT, and the convolution theorem
Morlet wavelets and wavelet convolution
10
11
12



23-Feb Complex wavelets and extracting power and phase
Band-pass filtering and the Hilbert transform
13
14


2-Mar Short-time FFT
Multi-taper
Less commonly used time-frequency decomposition methods
Time-frequency power and baseline corrections
15
16
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18




9-Mar Spring Break!!!!!!!!!!
16-Mar Inter-trial phase clustering
Total, phase-locked, and non-phase-locked power, and phase clustering
Interpretations and limitations of time-frequency power and phase analyses
Surface Laplacian
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20
21
22




23-Mar Principal components analysis
Basics of single dipole and distributed source imaging
Introduction to the various connectivity analyses
Phase-based connectivity
23
24
25
26




30-Mar Power-based connectivity
Granger prediction
Mutual information
27
28
29



6-Apr Cross-frequency coupling
Graph theory
Advantages and limitations of different statistical procedures
Function Description due Today (submit via D2L)
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31
32



13-Apr Informal class session: hack-a-thon day to work on your functions
20-Apr Non-parametric permutation testing
Within-subject statistical analyses
Group-level analyses and appropriate data analysis strategies
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35



27-Apr Recommendations for reporting results in figures, tables, and text
Recurring themes in this book, and some personal advice
The future of cognitive electrophysiology
Class presentation of personally-written functions (First Group)
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38
4-May Class presentation of personally-written functions (Second Group) None

Note:
... Slides
... Handout or supplemental article (PDF)
... MATLAB scripts (sometimes with sample data)
... Lecturelets from Mike Cohen