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

[Aaron Gibbings]

I’d also be happy to see how I could contribute to a better understanding of the 1/f phenomenon.
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Aaron Gibbings, Ph.D.

EEG, fNIRs, and Sleep Lab Technician
Human Cognition and Sensorimotor Core
The Western Centre for Brain and Mind
Western Interdisciplinary Research Building
University of Western Ontario,
London, Canada
N6A 3K7
Ph: 519-661-2111, x84559
Email: agibbing at uwo.ca

On Nov 6, 2025, at 11:31 AM, Giovanni Pellegrino via eeglablist <eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu> wrote:

I'm interested, thanks!
Giovanni

Giovanni Pellegrino, MD, PhD, FACNS
Neurologist - Epileptologist


On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM Hanna Szakács via eeglablist <
eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I was reading the mentioned conversation with great interest. I'm no expert
in this field but would be interested to see how I could contribute.

Best wishes,
Hanna

Makoto Miyakoshi via eeglablist <eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu> ezt írta
(időpont: 2025. nov. 5., Sze, 3:02):

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

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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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