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

[Maria Montefinese]

Hi all,

I am very interested in joining this open collaborative project!
Looking forward to hearing from you
All the best,
Maria

Il giorno lun 10 nov 2025 alle ore 16:42 Ralph F via eeglablist <
eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu> ha scritto:

> Dear all,
> I am keen to contribute. I have a PhD in psychology with experience in
> experimental psychology and theoretical knowledge in EEG (I tried but
> couldn't do it during my PhD, due to COVID lockdown). I also have extensive
> statistical expertise, e.g., clustering, time series, knowledge of ICA.
> With Best,
> ______________________
>
> Dr. Ralph Fung
>
>
>
>     R Vignayanandam Muddapu via eeglablist (<eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu>) 在
> 2025年11月10日星期一 上午10:22:07 [GMT+10:30] 寫道：
>
>  Hi Makoto,
>
> Great initiative.
> I'd like to participate too.
> I'm not an expert in the field, but I look forward to learning by
> contributing to it.
>
> Best Regards,
> R. Vignayanandam Muddapu, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor (Psychology and Cognitive Sciences),
> School of Arts and Sciences,
> Azim Premji University,
> Bengaluru. India.
> URL:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/vignayanandam-r-muddapu/home__;!!Mih3wA!HyiPwf6WsDnAecX9DY6L2atH0axhEpcnjGmqRl2tw0ldanE9fYEBCAUSoo0lEQcZhA2VbYeHiNKItH5WEQtN87CSjKGba5GqhM0f$
> <
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/vignayanandam-r-muddapu/home?authuser=0__;!!Mih3wA!HyiPwf6WsDnAecX9DY6L2atH0axhEpcnjGmqRl2tw0ldanE9fYEBCAUSoo0lEQcZhA2VbYeHiNKItH5WEQtN87CSjKGba9jF0ht-$
> >
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM 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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Maria Montefinese, PhD
Tenure-Track Researcher (RTT), University of Padova