TopoToolbox: Using sensor topography to calculate psychologically meaningful measures from event-related EEG/MEG

Xing Tian, David Poeppel, David E. Huber

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Abstract

The open-source toolbox TopoToolbox is a suite of functions that use sensor topography to calculate psychologically meaningful measures (similarity, magnitude, and timing) from multisensor event-related EEG and MEG data. Using a GUI and data visualization, TopoToolbox can be used to calculate and test the topographic similarity between different conditions (Tian and Huber, 2008). This topographic similarity indicates whether different conditions involve a different distribution of underlying neural sources. Furthermore, this similarity calculation can be applied at different time points to discover when a response pattern emerges (Tian and Poeppel, 2010). Because the topographic patterns are obtained separately for each individual, these patterns are used to produce reliable measures of response magnitude that can be compared across individuals using conventional statistics (Davelaar et al. Submitted and Huber et al., 2008). TopoToolbox can be freely downloaded. It runs under MATLAB (The MathWorks, Inc.) and supports user-defined data structure as well as standard EEG/MEG data import using EEGLAB (Delorme and Makeig, 2004).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number674605
JournalComputational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume2011
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Neuroscience
  • General Mathematics

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