The EEGLAB News #15
Talía Román López, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Talía Román López, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is part of the Attention, Brain, and Data Science lab of Dr. Agatha Lenartowicz at UC Los Angeles, and is interested in evaluating different cognitive processes of visual working memory and visual attention. “One of the ways that we can look at the brain surface or scalp,” Dr. Román López explains, “is to look at the posterior regions. And EEG is very useful for that. These are very fast processes,” she continues. “We record EEG because it allows us to measure these dynamics very quickly. It is milliseconds.”
Because EEG is such a central part of her research, Dr. Román López was determined to find the best toolbox to work with her EEG data. “We are using EEGLAB because I think that it’s the most powerful tool to analyze these brain dynamics. The toolbox has a lot of plug-ins that you can utilize, even with different equipment for acquisition.” While attaining her Ph.D. in Mexico City (2015-2020), she was fortunate to find EEGLAB. “I have been working with EEGLAB for at least five years now,” she shares. “When I first started working with EEG acquisition, we had a program called NetStation, and inside that program, you could export your data to EEGLAB.” Dr. Román López has been eager to learn the latest features of EEGLAB in this workshop, so that she can best utilize its power in her exploration of memory and attention.