Simply EEGLAB

The EEGLAB window & menus

Station 1 · Lesson 2 · EEGLAB 2026.1

In the GUI

  1. FileLoad existing dataset
  2. Open eeglab_data.set
  3. PlotChannel data (scroll)
  4. +-
  5. SettingsTime range to display

Script

[ALLEEG, EEG, CURRENTSET, ALLCOM] = eeglab;
sampleFolder = fullfile(fileparts(which('eeglab')), 'sample_data');
EEG = pop_loadset('filename', 'eeglab_data.set', 'filepath', sampleFolder);
[ALLEEG, EEG, CURRENTSET] = pop_newset(ALLEEG, EEG, 0, 'gui', 'off');
eeglab redraw;
pop_eegplot(EEG, 1, 1, 1);

Which value should I choose?

LineMeaningValue in eeglab_data.set
Channels per frameNumber of channels32
Frames per epochNumber of samples per channel (for continuous data: the whole recording)30504
EpochsNumber of segments. A value of 1 means continuous data that has not been epoched1
EventsNumber of events154
Sampling rate (Hz)Sampling rate: samples per second128
Epoch start (sec) and Epoch end (sec)Start and end of the data in seconds0.000 and 238.305
ReferenceThe reference the channels were recorded againstunknown: EEGLAB does not know this file's reference, although it was recorded with a mastoid reference. You will come back to this in the re-referencing lesson
Channel locationsDo the channels have positions on the head?Yes
ICA weightsHas ICA been computed for this dataset?No

Check

  • The first line
  • The values
  • The scrolling window
  • From the Command Window

Full lesson: https://simplyeeglab.pages.dev/en/lesson/eeglab-gui/

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