Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 130714, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/130714
Research Article

EEGLAB, SIFT, NFT, BCILAB, and ERICA: New Tools for Advanced EEG Processing

Arnaud Delorme,1,2,3 Tim Mullen,1,4 Christian Kothe,1 Zeynep Akalin Acar,1 Nima Bigdely-Shamlo,1 Andrey Vankov,1 and Scott Makeig1,5

1Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 92093 CA, USA
2Université de Toulouse, UPS, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, 31062 Toulouse, France
3CNRS, CerCo, 31062 Toulouse, France
4Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 92093 CA, USA
5Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 92093 CA, USA

Received 5 October 2010; Revised 5 January 2011; Accepted 10 February 2011

Academic Editor: Sylvain Baillet

Copyright © 2011 Arnaud Delorme et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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