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On Using Python to Run, Analyze, and Decode EEG Experiments

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Information Systems and Neuroscience

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation ((LNISO,volume 32))

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As the NeuroIS field expands its scope to address more complex research questions with electroencephalography (EEG), there is greater need for EEG analysis capabilities that are relatively easy to implement and adapt to different protocols, while at the same time providing an open and standardized approach. We present a series of open source tools, based on the Python programming language, which are designed to facilitate the development of open and collaborative EEG research. As supplementary material, we demonstrate the implementation of these tools in a NeuroIS case study and provide files that can be adapted by others for NeuroIS EEG research.

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  1. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

    Colin Conrad, Om Agarwal, Carlos Calix Woc, Tazmin Chiles, Daniel Godfrey, Kavita Krueger, Valentina Marini, Alexander Sproul & Aaron Newman

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences (ISQS), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

    Fred D. Davis

  2. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Steyr, Oberösterreich, Austria

    René Riedl

  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke

  4. Department of Information Technology, HEC Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Pierre-Majorique Léger

  5. Department of Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA

    Adriane Randolph

  6. Department for Digital Business, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Steyr, Oberösterreich, Austria

    Thomas Fischer

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Conrad, C. et al. (2020). On Using Python to Run, Analyze, and Decode EEG Experiments. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A., Fischer, T. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28144-1_32

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