How Do We Get the Brain to Tell Us About Language Computations and Representations? Designing and Implementing Experiments

Abstract

Planning and conduction of electrophysiological experiments involves considering numerous factors, such as meticulous matching linguistic stimuli by their psycholinguistic features, finding optimal data recording settings, and choosing data-analysis criteria. All these factors may considerably alter the results of your experiment. This chapter is intended for those, who are new to the field and wonder where to start. This chapter is suitable also for those readers, who wish to update their knowledge on the topic of EEG data recording and analysis. While many laboratories around the world already have EEG equipment, this chapter offers recommendations also for those, who wish to update their EEG equipment or lab settings. We focus particularly on the settings that are intended for planning and conducting experiments with linguistic stimuli.