Some EEG stuff
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EEG activity is usually observed in people relaxing.

What pattern are alpha waves?

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EEG providing supportive evidence of brain death.

What is ECI?

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A good method to remove eye blinks from EEG.

What is ICA?

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A disease cause by prion infection.

What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease?

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A brain disorder that is treated with benzodiazepines.

What is epilepsy/seizure?

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The EEG artifact produced when people sweat during the recording.

What is sweat sway?

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An early ERP component recorded on the occipital area that can be positive or negative.

What is C1?

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The system used to position the electrodes on the subject's scalp.

What is 10-20 system?

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100 to 200ms.

What is the duration of a proper ERP baseline?

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Positive or negative.

What is the polarity of an ERP component?

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EEG activities looking like railroad tracks.

What are muscle artifacts?

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The fact to reject a null hypothesis when this one is true.

What is a type 1 error?

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60Hz.

What is the frequency of the electrical system in the United States?

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Substracting the ERP components in one condition to the one in another condition.

What is a difference wave?

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Removes the frequencies of the EEG signal that are under 0.1Hz.

What does a high pass filter/low filter do?

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A technique used to trigger seizures in patients.

What are activation methods?

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The removal of trials presenting artifacts in the EEG.

What is artifact rejection?

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A software that is used to localize dipoles corresponding to the ERP components.

What is BESA/Loreta?

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The signal before the presentation of a stimuli that is not on average equal to 0.

A poor baseline.

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A statistical tool used to correct the p values of tests involving multiple comparisons.

What is Greenhouse-Geisser/Huynh-Feldt epsilon?

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The impossibility to localize the generators of ERPS.

What is the inverse problem?

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The sampling rate of and EEG system must be equal to twice the maximum value of highest frequency we want to study.

What is the Nyquist theorem?

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The origins of most ERPs.

what are postsynaptic potentials.

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There is no substitute to clean data.

What is the Hansen's axiom?

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The structures that are supposed to produced alpha waves.

What are V2 and V4?

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