[Eeglablist] ICA questions

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Dear eeglab Experts,

I am just starting to acclimatize myself to eeglab and 
would be most grateful if you can answer a couple of 
questions that a crucial for selection of strategy of my 
future work.

1. Does it make sense to use ICA if only 32 channels (2 
oculomotor) are available? What is the minimal number of 
channels which still allows to do ICA?

2. Is it possible to compare groups of subjects or perform 
a correlational analysis (say, correlate eeg and 
personality measures) using ICA (given that in each 
subject IC are individual)? I realize that clastering may 
help to combine components of a sample of subjects into 
chimerical "subjects" and thus get round the problem, but 
it does not help when individual differences are of 
interest. Could you please suggest a possible solution or 
give relevant references? Receiving a pdf copy of relevant 
paper would be particularly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Gennady Knyazev