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

[He, Maxine]

Hi Makoto,

Thanks for the invitation! I am currently a PhD student in neuroscience using EEG to understand and classify brain states when participants are exposed to stress-inducing conditions. I have experience in EEG processing and basic knowledge about 1/f  analysis. I am not sure if I am late to responding to the thread but would greatly appreciate it if you could keep me in the loop. I would be happy to contribute to the project if I can help with anything.

Thanks!

Best,
Max

Maxine He
Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience Program
Research Assistant,
Human Dynamics and Controls Lab (HDCL),
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

> On Nov 4, 2025, at 18:07, Makoto Miyakoshi <mmiyakoshi at 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sccn.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/eeglablist__;!!DZ3fjg!91_McV0uIKnqmiYwGKGU6C1P0yHA3XBjQG6gyfB67BuktH9pMofNAck3yGX2T3PiEtNo0h7KkK3AXCBtv47YdhafdLBVFRjInj1h$  >>
> **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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sccn.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/eeglablist__;!!DZ3fjg!91_McV0uIKnqmiYwGKGU6C1P0yHA3XBjQG6gyfB67BuktH9pMofNAck3yGX2T3PiEtNo0h7KkK3AXCBtv47YdhafdLBVFRjInj1h$  >>
> *>* 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sccn.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/eeglablist__;!!DZ3fjg!91_McV0uIKnqmiYwGKGU6C1P0yHA3XBjQG6gyfB67BuktH9pMofNAck3yGX2T3PiEtNo0h7KkK3AXCBtv47YdhafdLBVFRjInj1h$  > 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*