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

[Sarvenaz Changizi]

Hello everyone and dear Makoto,



Thank you for this perfect idea and invitation!

I am also eager to be a part of this valuable cooperation, as I work and
run experiments using EEG/ERP.



I would be happy to hear more from you in this regard.




Sincerely,

Sarvenaz Changizi


Ph.D. student and researcher in Psychology
Department of the "Methodology of the behavioral sciences"
University of Valencia (Spain)

On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM Giorgio Di Lorenzo via eeglablist <
eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Dear Makoto,
>
> I support your excellent initiative. So, please, include me in this
> working group.
>
> I look forward to hearing more details from you about the project's
> developments and our involvement.
>
> Yours,
>
> Giorgio Di Lorenzo
>
>
>
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> President of Bachelor's Degree Course in Psychiatric Rehabilitation
> Technique
> Laboratory of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience
> Chair of Psychiatry, Department of Systems Medicine
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> 00133 Rome
> Italy
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>
> > On 5 Nov 2025, at 01:07, 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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