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Games used in human brain research [3]

Go-Nogo game This game is fairly simple, but it’s very hard to get all correct. A subject sits in front of a computer. In the “go” block, a series of letters will appear one after another in the center of the screen. The subject has
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Games used in human brain research [2]

Previous post “Games used in human brain research ” The finger tapping task mentioned in the last post is rather boring. How interesting it is to move fingers? So in this post I will talk about a more interesting task: competitive butt
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A trick to detect bad channel in NIRS data analysis

Some noise is easy to detect – simply plotting the time courses of NIRS signal, you will find the noise so out of range and you will discard the data. However, I find in some instances the noise level seems to be in the normal range but the dat
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Games used in human brain research [1]

The vast majority of studies on the relationship between human brain and behavior try to answer the “where” question: Where in the brain are the regions that are responsible for a particular task? For example, where is the finger movement
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Funny video on lean startups

Found this funny video https://www.youtube.com/embed/3J9KhpgYVB0
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Using environment variables in MatLab

Quite often you need to call external or system commands inside MatLab. Sometimes that external commands requires setting up environment variables in the shell. If would be a pain to do the environment setup inside MatLab. The easiest way I know of t
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Small MatLab tips

genpath When you add a folder to path, you often want to add all its subfolders (and their subfolders) to path too. In this case, you can use genpath. e.g. addpath(genpath(pwd)) use ii, instead of i, in loop (suggested by Chess Stetson) You probably
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