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PSY596L Schedule, Assignments, Homework and Class Material

 

DateTopicsChaptersResources
26-Jan

 		Lecture Overview topics and chapters; Introduction to Matlab    
2-Feb

 		Matlab Tutorial1,2,3,4,5 
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-MarShort-time FFT
Multi‐taper
Less commonly used time‐frequency decomposition methods
Time‐frequency power, and baseline corrections 		15
16
17
18		 
 
 
 
 
9-MarSpring 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		 .


 
 
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)
 		None 
 

Note:

  ... Slides  
  ... Handout or supplemental article in pdf format
  ... Matlab scripts (sometimes with sample data)
  ...  Lecturelets from Mike Cohen's resource page