8. BCN Functional Neuroscience: EEG Part
Target Group
PhD candidates, master's students and postdocs planning to do EEG research. This course is offered to BCN Master students in the C-track. BCN PhD candidates will be given the opportunity to participate as well
Credits
2 EC.
Objectives
Besides treating theoretical backgrounds participants will become acquainted with EEG hard- and software. The last part of the course consists of an introduction into Brain Vision Analyzer, which will allow all students to analyze the data they recorded on the previous days.
Prerequisites
No specific prior knowledge is required; however, academic skills are expected.
Period
Usually in September/October
Form
Lectures, Assignments, Practical work
Attendance during the EEG-practicals and -lectures is mandatory. Consequence of not attending is exclusion from the written exam.
Description
Besides discussing the theoretical background of the EEG technique and the requirements of an experimental design of an EEG study in interactive lectures, participants will become acquainted with EEG hardware- and software during different practicals. In these practicals participants will learn how to apply electrodes and how to record and analyze the EEG signal. The MATLAB packages EEGlab and ERPlab will be used to perform these analyzes.
Prior to the start of the course, the participants are required to prepare by familiarizing themselves with the experiment creation and presentation software OpenSesame.
Learning outcomes
Apply basic knowledge about the theoretical background of the EEG technique and experimental paradigms to design an EEG experiment. In addition, the participants will be able to collect high-quality EEG data, and to analyze EEG data using EEGlab and ERPLAB.
Perform a basic fMRI analysis, using practical and theoretical background knowledge about the technique.
Literature
Luck, S. J. (2014, 2nd edition). An introduction to the event-related potential technique. The MIT Press, Cambridge, England. (ISBN 9780262525855).
Information
Monicque Lorist (m.m.lorist rug.nl).