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Electroencephalography

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Our knowledge about brain function increased dramatically in the last decades due to the development and refinement of several recording techniques. Such advances flourished at different levels, ranging from the study of synaptic activity at the microscopic level to the refinement of brain imaging techniques at a macroscopic level. Modern data acquisition systems and new electrode designs enabled the simultaneous recording from dozens of neurons at a larger scale, and powerful computers allowed more complex simulations and data analysis, thus giving rise to the field of computational neuroscience. A somewhat less spectacular but also remarkable and steady progress has been made at an intermediate mesoscopic level (Freeman 1975, 1999) in the analysis of electroencephalograms (EEGs).

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  1. Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Walter J. Freeman

  2. Centre for Systems Neuroscience, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

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Freeman, W.J., Quiroga, R.Q. (2013). Electroencephalography. In: Imaging Brain Function With EEG. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4984-3_1

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