EEG and LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION CRASH COURSE

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This EEG and LANGUAGE comprehension crash course is a 2-days training providing researchers with an interest in language with a full experience on recording EEG and interpreting indexes that can be extracted from it and are informative about language processing. Different indexes and language processes will be presented, with particular emphasis on ERPs components that can be measured during sentence comprehension.
No prior experience is required, although an interest in language is necessary. Topics covered will include:

  • Current research and future development of language-related EEG indexes, including ERPs and time-frequency analysis;
  • How to design your EEG experiment with linguistic stimuli? How to avoid artefact, how to build solid control conditions, how to get the required statistical power, how to present auditory and written stimuli, how to choose the task that is right for your question;
  • Pre-processing and statistical analysis of ERPs data: Including artefacts detection and corrections, filtering, average, baseline correction, recognizing effects and component and measuring their amplitudes and latencies.

The ERPs and Language Comprehension crash course will take place on 6 – 7th June 2019 at the Department of Psychology, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, hosted by the LangLife Lab. The course has the BPS accreditation for CPD.

We are trying to keep costs low.
Registration fee to cover the training costs is 80£, to be paid on the first day of course. Please note that places are limited to 12 participants.
Advanced registration is necessary.

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EEG and LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION CRASH COURSE

6 – 7th June 2019 – Heriot Watt University – Room EC207

DAY 1

9.30 Participants arrive and sign the attendance list.
9.30 – 9.40 Opening of training. Presentation of the activities.
9.40 – 10.40 EEG neural origin and recording with a specific introduction to the BioSemi recording system (Prof Paolo Canal).
10.40 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.00 Main EEG derived indexes: ERPs, time-frequency. What aspects of language processing can be tested with these measures? (Prof Francesco Vespignani).
12.00- 12.30 General discussion and questions/clarifications.
12.30 – 2.00 Lunch Break
2.00 – 3.00 Group activity. Supervised groups to start working on How to design your EEG experiment?
3.00 – 3.30 Break
3.30 – 4.00 Lab visit and Practicalities (Lab technicians).
4.00- 5.00 Data Clinic session. Session for discussing your research design or dataset.
5.15 Participants leave and sign the attendance list.

DAY 2

9.30– 9.45 Opening of day 2. Presentation of the activities for Day 2.
9.45– 10.45 Statistical analysis of ERP data (Prof Paolo Canal)
10.45 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.00 Language-related ERPs components, current research and future directions, including individual differences (Prof Francesco Vespignani).
12.00- 1.00 Lunch Break
1.00 – 4.00 Training sessions. On the day, you will be assigned to one group to practice basic EEG analysis.
4.00 – 4.30 Assessment of the activity.
4.30 End of training. Certificate award.