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📗 -> 10/22/24: Experimental Design

Part 1

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❗ Information

EEG Experiment Structure:

  • Stimuli
    • What is someone presented with / looking at
  • # of trials
    • How long are they looking
    • How much data recorded
  • Participants
    • Who is looking
  • Response
    • What is someone doing during the exp

Literature Review

Find specifics surrounding experiment

  • Timings
  • Responses
  • ERP Components
  • Methods are in line with current research

Finding a good article

  • Peer reviewed

  • Reputable

    • Google Scholar, PubMed, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, or JSTOR
  • Papers impact factor

  • Lean towards published recently

  • Sometimes other colleges neurotech are good resources

Clean Data

A good data collection protocol will save time. You won’t have to go back and repeatedly collect data to make your algorithms work.

Raw Data = signal + noise

Hansen’s axiom: “There is no substitute for good data”

“Increasing the number of trials eventually has diminishing returns because the effect of averaging on noise is not linearly proportional to the number of trials” (Luck, 2014)

  • The noise decreases as a function of the square root of the number of trials in the average

Factors Affecting Electrical Measurement

Impedance: combo of resistance, capacitance, and inductance

  • Skin, electrode gel, electrode can influence
    Skin potential: tonic voltage between in-and-out of skin
  • Magnitude of this voltage changes with impedance
    Sweat: Causes gradual shift

Remedies

  • Abrase (remove outer layer) of skin before placing elctrodes using Nuprep

  • Use fair amount of electrode gel

  • Use medical tape to stick electrodes to head or ear

  • Wash ur head

  • Keep from overlapping

    • Minimize cable + electrode movement
  • Record from magnetically sound environments

    • Avoid electronics when possible
  • Avoid reference interference

    • Consult previous literature
Body Noise

Eyes are a strong dipole

  • Corneas postively charged
  • Retinas negatively charged
    When someone blinks, the disruption of this field causes a large amount of noise

Give an ITI period for blinks (minimize participant mental weight to this task, its noise)

Temporalis muscle

  • Limit neck movement, jaw clenches

Spatial Resolution

ICA isn’t entirely effective, because noise can be coming from deep, or surface level of brain. No idea where the source is.

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