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 (https://www.mathworks.com/campaigns/products/trials.html).
Workshop material
Workshop materials are provided on a USB flash drive. Copy the entire contents of the drive to your computer. Locate the file eeglab.zip, extract it, and follow the setup instructions. If you are using a Mac, make sure to follow these instructions to enable binary files for source localization.
Workshop Program (with corresponding PDFs)
The presented slides will be made available on this page. 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
20:30 – Dinner in Aspet (included in registration). Note that the optional evening MATLAB session was canceled due to a late dinner and also because the speaker, Ramon, could not make it.
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) PDF
– Break–
10:30 – 11:30 – ICA theory (Scott Makeig)
11:30 – 13:00 – Data import, Artifact rejection (Claire Braboszcz) PDF
13:00-14:00 Lunch –
ICA and source analysis
14:00 – 15:00 – ICA decomposition practicum (Claire Braboszcz) ICLabel Practice PDF
15:00 – 16:15 – Forward and inverse models - the Dipfit tools (Robert Oostenveld) PDF
– Break–
16:30 – 17:45 – EEGLAB Dipfit plugin (Arnaud Delorme) PDF DIPFIT
19:45 – Dinner
Wednesday, July 2nd
Group analysis and ICA clustering in EEGLAB
8:30 - 9:15 – The Brain Imaging Data Structure (Robert Oostenveld) PDF
9:15 - 10:30 – Creating a STUDY and preprocessing data (Arnaud Delorme) PDF
– Break–
11:20 – 11:50 – PCA vs. ICA and bootstraping ICA using RELICA (Fiorenzo Artoni) PDF
11:50 - 12:30 – Why cluster ICA components? (Scott Makeig) PDF
12:30-14:00 Lunch –
14:00 - 14:30 – Practical ICA clustering (Arnaud Delorme) PDF
14:30 - 16:00 – Statistical analysis: Hierarchical Linear Modelling of EEG data (Cyril Pernet) PDF LIMO PDF HLM
– Break–
16:30-18:00– Hiking excursion
19:45 – Dinner
Thursday, July 3rd
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast
Advanced EEG signal processing methods
8:30 – 9:30 – Time-frequency decompositions: Theory and practice (Scott Makeig)
9:30 – 10🕙0 – Finding the best parameter for clean_rawdata/ASR (Fiorenzo Artoni) PDF
10:00 – 10:30 – What are EEG microstates? (Fiorenzo Artoni)
– Break–
General Linear Modeling
10:50 - 11:30 – Correcting for multiple comparisons (Cyril Pernet) PDF
11:30 - 12:00 – More STUDY designs and GLM (Cyril Pernet and Arnaud Delorme) PDF LIMO PDF HLM
12:00 – 13:00 – Theory and practice of applying general linear models to EEG data using the LIMO EEGLAB plug-in (Cyril Pernet)
13:00-14:30 Lunch –
Source information flow
14:30 – 15:40 – Continued processing of HW dataset (STUDY design and LIMO) (Cyril Pernet and Arnaud Delorme)
– Break–
16:00 – 17:00 – Source information flow and Granger-Causal modeling tools, SIFT and ROIconnect toolbox (Arnaud Delorme) PDF connectivity
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