Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 861705, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/861705
Research Article

ElectroMagnetoEncephalography Software: Overview and Integration with Other EEG/MEG Toolboxes

Peter Peyk,1 Andrea De Cesarei,2 and Markus Junghöfer3

1Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Saarland University, Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
2Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
3Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany

Received 31 August 2010; Revised 30 November 2010; Accepted 18 January 2011

Academic Editor: Sylvain Baillet

Copyright © 2011 Peter Peyk 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.

Abstract

EMEGS (electromagnetic encephalography software) is a MATLAB toolbox designed to provide novice as well as expert users in the field of neuroscience with a variety of functions to perform analysis of EEG and MEG data. The software consists of a set of graphical interfaces devoted to preprocessing, analysis, and visualization of electromagnetic data. Moreover, it can be extended using a plug-in interface. Here, an overview of the capabilities of the toolbox is provided, together with a simple tutorial for both a standard ERP analysis and a time-frequency analysis. Latest features and future directions of the software development are presented in the final section.