Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Methods Meetings

A new frontier of coding: Effectively using LLMs technologies to help you code better: Featuring ChatGPT

Introduction to behavioral Experiments in PsychoPy

Experimentalists often find themselves needing to present carefully controlled stimuli to participants, control and catalog stimulus conditions, responses, reaction times, and other empirically variables of interest. While tools such as...

Quick and Easy EEG Preprocessing in EEGLAB/ERPLAB

Why preprocess data?

A Gentle Intro to Support Vector Machines

Topics/Organization: Some geometric intuition for SVMs Introducing slack variables (Soft-Margin SVMs) The SVM loss function (primal and dual forms) SVMs and Kernels Some coding examples of the above (for fun!)...

Decomposing Fourier transforms — an introduction to time-frequency decomposition

The beauty of the Fourier series and Fourier transform

Introductions to dimensionality reduction

Finding structure The whole goal of our experiments is to uncover some structure in behavior. In some cases we can make this easier for ourselves by simplifying the data we...