What are the neurosciences all about? About understanding the brain, right? So far so good, but how do we approach the brain studies? It isn’t easy since the brain happens to be the most complex organ (and probably the most…
Carrying out an EEG experiment is complex, expensive and time-consuming. This blog post is meant to provide a series of guidelines by focusing on a concrete experiment. Hopefully this will teach you some basic concepts regarding experimental design in general…
If you have ever worked in the field of biopotential recording, you surely are aware of the omnipresent artefacts. If you haven’t, let me introduce you to them. Artefacts includes all the parts of your recorded signal that does not…
“Why are we sleeping?” Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine 1968. The plain answer is that we do not know, but we do have some hypotheses. What it is clear is that sleeping and the brain are very closely related, so this…