Event Related Potentials (ERPs)

Presentation Software

There are several software that can set-up an experiment which presents some stimulus (audio, images, video, etc.) to a subject in order to elicit ERPs in the EEG signal. It is very important that the recorded EEG data is synchronized with those stimulus in order to detect the ERPs when analyzing the data. The NIC software provides the basic infrastructure to receive those markers from this kind of software every time a stimuli is presented. Please refer to the Interacting_with_NIC section for the details on how NIC handles the reception of the markers.

In the following section we detail how some of the most relevant presentation software can be configured to send markers to NIC.