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

[georgia alexandrou]

Hi Makoto,

I would be very interested in taking part in this open project.

Best
Dr Georgia Alexandrou

On Thu, 6 Nov 2025, 09:33 Jonathan Phoon Ngok Jun via eeglablist, <
eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
> ________________________________
> 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.
> - NICU Senior Research Fellow, ‘Panagiotis and Aglaia Kyriakou’ Children’s
> Hospital, Athens, Greece
> - World Health Organization roster of consultants for Brain Health
> - World Health Organization certified specialist for Social Prescribing
> - Associate Editor - Frontiers in Pediatric Psychology Journal
>
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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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