EEGLAB Workshop
Aspet France - June 30-July 4th, 2025 The 34th EEGLAB Workshop will take place at the Bois Perche, about two hours by chartered bus from Toulouse. Participants will be expected to bring laptops with MATLAB installed so as to be able to participate in the practical sessions. The tutorial workshop will introduce and demonstrate the use of the EEGLAB software environment and EEGLAB-linked tools for performing advanced analysis of EEG and related data, with detailed method expositions and practical exercises. There will be an excursion.
A Free symposium on Cloud EEG data processing will precede the workshop in Toulouse.
Registration and cost
Space at the workshop is limited to about 40 participants.
To reimburse travel expenses of Workshop faculty and facilities rental, costs for the workshop will be as follows:
Registration cost is 280 Euros for students (plus 490 euros for accommodation) and post-docs, 380 Euros (plus 490 euros for accommodation) for faculty and other professionals. Professionals are 580 Euros (plus 490 euros for accommodation). These registration costs include conference space rental, all coffee breaks, and a short excursion. When registering, participants are also expected to pay for accommodation and all meals at the Bois Perche retreat center (a total of 490 euros). Included accommodation is in a private room at the Bois Perche resort for 4 days. Because of a grant from the CNRS, registration (and accommodation) is free for participants for the first three CNRS employees (including PhD students and post-docs) – first come, first served.
Warning: This workshop is not aimed for real beginners in EEG - such persons would be wasting much of their time. Some parts of the workshop are fairly technical. The main topics will be advanced methods for analyzing EEG and allied behavioral data, methods including spectral decomposition, independent component analysis, inverse source analysis, information flow, etc.. Some other parts of the workshop will require basic MATLAB scripting capabilities. Some basic web resources for learning MATLAB are discussed below. Beginners may also gain experience using MATLAB by applying the steps discussed in the EEGLAB wiki tutorial to the sample dataset which you can freely download.
MATLAB tutorial
IMPORTANT NOTE: A portion of the workshop will be dedicated to writing EEGLAB scripts – Not being able to understand MATLAB syntax will mean you will miss out on a large portion of the workshop.
If you are new to MATLAB or need a refresher, please consult the material on the Getting started with MATLAB page
If you do not have MATLAB, you can obtain a 30-day trial license for free on the mathworks website.
Workshop Program (with corresponding PDFs)
Material for workshop tutorials (including EEGLAB) will be made available on USB keys. Presented slides will be made available during the workshop. You only need to bring a laptop with MATLAB installed.
Purple lettering = lecture Orange lettering = tutorial
Monday, June 30th
Free symposium: Cloud EEG/MRI/fMRI automated processing pipelines, the SIESTA project
(Toulouse CerCo laboratory)
16:30 – Shuttle bus pick up at Toulouse train station
17:00 – Shuttle bus pick up at Toulouse airport
19:45 – Dinner in Aspet (included in registration)
20:45 – 21:30 – Optional MATLAB fundamentals session by Ramon Martinez
Tuesday, July 1st
7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast
Overview and ICA Theory/Practice
8:30 – 9:45 – Mining event-related brain dynamics I (Scott Makeig)
9:45 – 10:15 – EEGLAB overview (Arnaud Delorme)
– Break–
10:30 – 11:30 – ICA theory (Scott Makeig)
11:30 – 13:00 – Data import, Artifact rejection (Johanna Wagner)
13:00-14:00 Lunch –
ICA and source analysis
14:00 – 16:00 – ICA decomposition practicum (Johanna Wagner)
– Break–
16:15 – 17:15 – Forward and inverse models - the Dipfit tools (Robert Oostenveld)
17:15 – 17:45 – Using the EEGLAB Dipfit plug-in (Arnaud Delorme)
19:45 – Dinner
Wednesday, July 2nd
Group analysis and ICA clustering in EEGLAB
8:30 - 9:15 – Why cluster ICA components? (Scott Makeig)
9:15 - 10:00 – Cluster permutation testing (Robert Oostenveld)
– Break–
10:15 - 10:45 – Making data FAIR with BIDS (Robert Oostenveld)
10:45 - 11:45 – Continued processing of HW dataset (ICA) (Johanna Wagner)
11:45 - 12:45 – Continued processing of HW dataset (STUDY design) (Ramon Martinez)
12:45-14:00 Lunch –
14:00 – 16:00 – Practicum (use your own data)
– Break–
16:30-18:00– Hiking excursion
19:45 – Dinner
Thursday, July 3rd
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast
Time-frequency analysis
8:30 – 9:30 – Time-frequency decompositions: Theory and practice (Scott Makeig)
9:30 – 10:00 – Phase-Amplitude Coupling (Ramon Martinez)
– Break–
General Linear Modeling
10:15 - 11:30 – Continued processing of HW dataset (STUDY design) (Ramon Martinez)
11:30 – 12:30 – Theory and practice of applying general linear models to EEG data using the LIMO EEGLAB plug-in (Arnaud Delorme)
12:30-13:45 Lunch –
Source information flow
13:45 – 15:00 – Continued processing of HW dataset (STUDY design and LIMO) (Ramon Martinez and Arnaud Delorme)
– Break–
15:00 – 17:00 – Source information flow and Granger-Causal modeling tools, SIFT and ROIconnect toolbox (Arnaud Delorme)
19:45 – Dinner
Friday, July 4th
7:30-8:30 – Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 – Deep learning and EEG (Arnaud Delorme)
9:30 – 10:15 – Mining event-related brain dynamics II (Scott Makeig)
– Break–
10:30 – 11:30 – Practicum, small group projects
11:30 – 12:00 – General discussion
12:15 – Lunch
13:00 – Airport/train station shuttle bus leaves Bois Perche
Between 14:15 and 14:45 – drop off at Toulouse/Blagnac Airport
Between 14:30 and 15:15 – drop off at Toulouse Matabiau train station
Further reading
You can consult a list of relevant EEGLAB papers here