[Eeglablist] Invitation to collaborate on an open paper about EEG’s 1/f power distribution

[Jonathan Phoon Ngok Jun]

Hi Makoto,

I'd like to participate too.
I'm not an expert in the field but am looking forward to learning by contributing if possible.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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From: Prof. Efthymios Papatzikis <efp331 at mail.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 4:00 PM
To: Makoto Miyakoshi <mmiyakoshi at ucsd.edu>
Cc: EEGLAB List <eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: [Eeglablist] Invitation to collaborate on an open paper about EEG’s 1/f power distribution

Dear Makoto,

I would be very interested to participate in this open project. When you have more details on next steps, please share and advise accordingly.

Regards,
Efthymios

Professor Efthymios (Timos) Papatzikis
PhD, PhD, FHEA, Cert.Neuro.
- Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, School of Health Sciences and Psychology, Canadian University Dubai, U.A.E.
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> On 5 Nov 2025, at 04:07, Makoto Miyakoshi via eeglablist <eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello EEGLAB mailing list,
>
> Some of you may recall the long, dense, and ever-continuing discussion we
> witnessed this summer about EEG’s 1/f power distribution. I’m sure many of
> you wondered, “Can they please stop quoting papers while speaking?” That
> conversation seemed to have ended on the list. But it has continued
> off-list! And now, it has led to the idea of writing a collaborative paper.
>
> We’d like to invite anyone interested to join this open project. You don’t
> need to be a specialist; genuine curiosity and a willingness to contribute
> are what matter most.
>
> If you’d like to participate, please reply to this mailing list so that
> everyone can stay in the loop.
>
> For those curious, I’ve also included below a brief history of EEGLAB
> mailing list–initiated publications.
>
> Makoto
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> There have been several papers initiated through collaborations among the
> EEGLAB mailing list community and myself. Perhaps the most memorable one
> was the *ICA's bug *paper:
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/signal-processing/articles/10.3389/frsip.2023.1064138/full__;!!Mih3wA!Cbh-YHezfgaqMmBE5W3ZEgrQrVWaUWYz-KTmrvjznnSBUe4gGGPHnTU4wiXAUjuTUdp3kJzk20zqxfyCe0Sn4D1t7BQ$
>
> We can find the origin of this project in the following post.
>
> *On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 2:25 PM Makoto Miyakoshi <mmiyakoshi at
> ucsd.edu <https://sccn.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/eeglablist   >>
> **Dear subscribers,
> **Recently, there are multiple independent posts about the data rank
> issue **with ICA. In response, I am thinking about running a
> simulation **experiment **with a visiting scholar to SCCN as a small
> project on this issue for **publication. I would appreciate it if you
> can give me any of the **following **as an input.*
>
> I made it festive: I invited a high-school intern to join as a co-author
> (his coding skill was GOOD); I also invited a person whose name had been
> mysteriously engraved for over a decade in an annotation of EEGLAB’s code
> in question; I cited four authorities via unfashionable “private
> communication”; and yes, I gave the paper a catchy title that the first
> author did not like… etc., etc.
>
>> * > On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 2:25 PM Makoto Miyakoshi <mmiyakoshi at ucsd.edu <https://sccn.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/eeglablist   >>
> *>* wrote:
> *>* >
> *>* >> Dear subscribers,
> *>* >>
> *>* >> Recently, there are multiple independent posts about the data rank issue
> *>* >> with ICA. In response, I am thinking about running a simulation
> *>* experiment
> *>* >> with a visiting scholar to SCCN as a small project on this issue for
> *>* >> publication. I would appreciate it if you can give me any of the
> *>* following
> *>* >> as an input.
> *>* >>
> *>* >>   - Questions (what is puzzling for you? No need to be shy for asking
> *>* >>   'dumb questions')
> *>* >>   - Requests (if you want to know particularly X and/or Y on this issue,
> *>* >>   I may be able to give you the answer based on the simulation test)
> *>* >>   - Suggestions (about methods, data type, applications, etc)
> *>* >>   - Reports (when ICA failed, what did you see?)
> *>* >>
> *>* >> If you are interested in working with me to make a contribution to this
> *>* >> small project, please reply or contact me mmiyakoshi at
> ucsd.edu. <https://sccn.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/eeglablist   > If your
> *>* >> contribution is substantial, I'll offer you to be a coauthor. Probably
> *>* we
> *>* >> will need as many strange results as possible...?
> *>* >>
> *>* >> Probably this is the first attempt to run an open experiment on the
> *>* EEGLAB
> *>* >> mailing list--please join us and let's find out what happens!
> *>* >>
> *>* >> Makoto*
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