<div dir="ltr">For those who read Japanese and do EEG,<div><br></div><div>The former Nagoya University EEG trio Atsushi Matsumoto (little guru), Noriaki Kanayama (big errand), and Makoto Miyakoshi (sinewave surfer) have conspired to publish an EEG book, and adding Kochiyama sensei (Japanese Friston) and Hiraki sensei (Professor Karaoke) they recently made it.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you again Scott and Arno for nice preface.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Tokyo University Press</div><div><a href="http://www.utp.or.jp/bd/978-4-13-012111-8.html" target="_blank">http://www.utp.or.jp/bd/978-4-<wbr>13-012111-8.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Amazon.jp</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E8%84%B3%E6%B3%A2%E8%A7%A3%E6%9E%90%E5%85%A5%E9%96%80-EEGLAB%E3%81%A8SPM%E3%82%92%E4%BD%BF%E3%81%84%E3%81%93%E3%81%AA%E3%81%99-%E6%B2%B3%E5%86%85%E5%B1%B1-%E9%9A%86%E7%B4%80/dp/4130121111" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E8%<wbr>84%B3%E6%B3%A2%E8%A7%A3%E6%9E%<wbr>90%E5%85%A5%E9%96%80-EEGLAB%<wbr>E3%81%A8SPM%E3%82%92%E4%BD%BF%<wbr>E3%81%84%E3%81%93%E3%81%AA%E3%<wbr>81%99-%E6%B2%B3%E5%86%85%E5%<wbr>B1%B1-%E9%9A%86%E7%B4%80/dp/<wbr>4130121111</a></div><div><br></div><div>Portal sites</div><div><a href="https://sccn.ucsd.edu/eeglab/japanese/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://sccn.ucsd.edu/eeglab/j<wbr>apanese/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/eeglabspmbook/home" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/<wbr>eeglabspmbook/home</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The quote below, translated for non-Japanese readers, is taken from the final paragraphs of the book, for your interest.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(p.216) Another reason [for EEG to gather more attention in future] is that EEG research has received merits from progresses in computer performance, algorithm development, and an electrophysiological forward model of the human head. The more they advance, the more merit EEG research will receive. Probably they will continue to advance. You can find evidence for this in the recent history of EEG research: when a computer evolved from 16bit to 32bit in mid 90's and became capable of handling up to 4GB of RAM, wavelet transform and ICA were applied to EEG analysis. It resulted in breakthroughs.</div><div> The electrophysiological forward model of human head for EEG source localization, on the other hand, is still a minor research field today. This could be due to a lingering influence of historical thinking that EEG is interpretable only in correspondence with experimental manipulations in which, to put it extreme, knowledge about brain mechanism is irrelevant [i.e., EEG experiment has been serving as a 1-bit information generator to return yes/no answer to the experimental question by using a fraction of information it contains; in other words, EEG has been a pure dependent variable that cannot be a stand-alone measure to mean anything, except maybe for clinical EEG researchers who directly reads waveforms for diagnosis, so that researchers were agnostic about EEG generation and tried to stick to safe correlationism--which reminds me of Sherrington's skepticism--, which also undermined an interest in wholistic evaluation of EEG.] However, in near future there will be a surge of social needs in EEG measurement to improve BMI performance in engineering and to provide health monitoring on brain states in medicine in every home. Hopefully the rise of the social needs push people to be more aware of the presence of this bottleneck in the use of EEG, and hopefully more researcher will tackle the issue of electric forward modeling using ever improving computers and algorithms. In far future, I imagine more than 10,000 electrodes would be permanently implemented on the surface of cortex/scalp [as of Oct 19 2016, we have this kind of technology <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/injectable-nanowires-monitor-mouse-brains-for-months">http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/injectable-nanowires-monitor-mouse-brains-for-months</a>], and their signals be transferred wirelessly and available for anything anytime. When such technical breakthrough takes place, critical facts and/or techniques that drastically change our lifestyles and society may be discovered in the EEG research field. We were born at least half a century too early for that. Looking over the bright future of EEG research and applications, I feel pleasure to work on problems in this the still immature field one by one.</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_-6507956549181902442gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Makoto Miyakoshi<br>Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience<br>Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego<br></div></div>
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