[Eeglablist] Unofficial Pre-Workshop Meeting

[Makoto Miyakoshi]

Dear list,

I agree with Michael that "Lessen fear, reduce intimidation" is important
for learning. I am also from literature majors, bachelor's in philosophy
and PhD in psychology. As such, I did not receive formal undergraduate
curriculum in engineering: I am a self-taught guerilla. I will volunteer as
a main lecturer in this pre-workshop meeting. I would be happy to listen to
you about your experience and needs in EEG analysis, I will learn a lot
from it.

Makoto

On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 6:48 AM Dr. Michael Villanueva <
mvillanueva at alphathetacenter.com> wrote:

> Hello EEGLAB listserv
>
>
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> I am posting our notice for a working pre-meeting to EEGLAB workshop.
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> The registration link follows this announcement:
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> If you are a non-engineer attending EEGLAB for the first time, we invite
> you to read our offering.
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>
>
> Thank you
>
> Michael Villanueva
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>
> ****
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> Unofficial pre-meeting for EEGLAB workshop by Alpha Theta Center:
> Preparing basic set-ups, terms used, and concepts
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> When: November 7th 2018 1pm – 6pm.
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> Where: Alpha Theta Center, Inc., 10505 Sorrento Valley Rd Suite 150, San
> Diego, CA 92121
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> Intention: Lessen fear, reduce intimidation, and enable learning for those
> who will attend Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (SCCN)'s
> EEGLAB Workshop November 8th – 12th
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>
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> Intended Audience: Anyone with limited or no mathematical / engineering
> backgrounds who will attend SCCN’s EEGLAB Workshop.
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> Registration: 25$US a person (light snacks, beverages, rental space).
> Seating is limited to 15 attendees. Please note: No refunds are given.
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> Requirements:
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> 1. Personal Laptop
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> 2. Extension Cord
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> 3. MATLAB (2017b) installed. By installed, we mean downloaded and
> licensed. Please do not attend with a license dependent on an active
> internet connection. You do not need MATLAB toolboxes. Instruction can be
> found here: https://www.mathworks.com/help/install/index.html
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> 4. EEGLAB installed. Although plugins are available, none are needed to
> attend. Link for installing EEGLAB:
> https://sccn.ucsd.edu/eeglab/downloadtoolbox.php
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>
>
> Overview
>
> We will help participants install EEGLAB and MATLAB with correctly set
> paths. We will discuss definitions critical to understanding how
> independent component analysis (ICA) works – we will discuss its strengths
> and weaknesses. Concepts like independence, stationarity, orthogonality,
> spatial filter are alien to many non-engineers; however, collectively, they
> form the keystone in understanding ICA. You will learn why computational
> neuroscientists and engineers pre-process EEG data, why filters are used,
> why we re-reference, and why the log and decibel scales are so ubiquitous
> in numerous neuroscience publications. For some in neurofeedback, our
> scientific foundation is weak since some of us, in lieu of rigorous
> scientific training, accepted metaphorical explanations of brain dynamics
> during vendor-based training.  Content will flow from (a) hands on
> installations of software, to (b) words and concepts, (c) followed by a
> walk-through of different graphs engineers use (think of this section like
> a visual thesaurus). Interactive discussion is encouraged throughout since
> content may conflict with pre-existing assumptions about brain dynamics. We
> will conclude with a brief overview of coding scripts in MATLAB. We start
> at 1pm and end no later than 6pm.
>
>
>
> Wherefore Why?
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> Because our workshop is the workshop I wished I attended prior to my first
> EEGLAB.
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>
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> My name is Michael Villanueva, my PhD is in Clinical Psychology my BA is
> in Literature with an emphasis on Old English and Latin. In 2009, my first
> entry into brain dynamics was learning Neurofeedback at Camp Pendleton.
> Two years ago, I attended my first EEGLAB workshop. As a beginner, I
> attended the “Beginner” track. During my training I Googled words like
> stationarity, decibel, wavelet, linear interspersed with scanning abstracts
> while straining my attention towards the speakers. Yes, I read all
> recommended papers prior to attending; however, for a non-engineer, the
> gulf was simply too wide to bridge with an advanced set of papers. We hope
> our mini-pre gathering with personal attention to key concepts will
> facilitate your acquisition of knowledge during the main event.
>
>
>
> 1. The Alpha Theta Center is neither associated with, nor affiliated in
> any manner with the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (SCCN)
> within UC San Diego grounds
> 2. There is NO endorsement by SCCN of the content of our meeting.
> 3. There is NO endorsement implied by SCCN by the existence of this
> meeting.
> 4. There is NO endorsement implied by SCCN of this meeting in accepting
> post of this notice on the EEGLAB listserv
>
>
>
> https://www.alphathetacenter.com/pre-workshop-for-eeglab-workshop/
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-- 
Makoto Miyakoshi
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego
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