PSY516 Schedule, Assignments, Problem Sets, and Class Material

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

6
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
17
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

19
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

30
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

33
34
35

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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 from class)

36
37
38

4-May

Class presentation of personally-written functions (Second Group from class)
 

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