ERP decoding webinars on June 29 and June 30

Recordings of the webinars are no longer available. However, we are working on a plan to present these webinars again in late summer or early fall. We are also planning webinars on other topics. If you are interested in getting updates about future events, please join our email list.

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We will be giving a pair of webinars on ERP decoding that are open to the worldwide ERP community as part of our Virtual ERP Boot Camp.

Part 1 (Monday, June 29, 8:00 AM Pacific Time) will be a general overview of how ERP decoding works, what kinds of things can be decoded, and the strengths and weaknesses of decoding relative to traditional univariate ERP analysis methods. This part will be led by Steve Luck.

Part 2 (Tuesday, June 30, 8:00 AM Pacific Time) will be a how-to workshop led by Gi-Yeul Bae (who developed our decoding approach) and Aaron Simmons (the lab manager for the Luck Lab). They will go through our decoding pipeline line by line so that you’ll be able to easily apply it to your own data. Everything is in Matlab, using a bit of EEGLAB and ERPLAB and a lot of custom code that can be easily adapted for a broad range of experiments. Part 2 will assume that you’ve done Part 1 and that you have at least a little Matlab coding experience.

We expect that each part will be approximately 2 hours (but this is just an estimate). We realize that the timing will not be appropriate for some time zones, but 8:00 AM here in California is about the best we can realistically do.

We will make recordings available on erpinfo.org for one week following each webinar. The links should be available by the end of the day (California time) on July 1.

We will focus on decoding for basic science and preclinical research, not for engineering applications. For example, our methods are not very useful for brain-computer interfaces., but they can be incredibly powerful for answering scientific questions about the human mind and brain. For an overview of our approach and links to recent papers, see this blog post.

Inquiries should be directed to erpbootcamp@gmail.com.