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Ch 1: The Purpose of This Book, Who Should Read it, and How to Use it

This chapter is mainly an introduction for the book, discussing that it serves as an overview of the analysis that comes with EEG (but it can be done with other time-varying signals), but it is not exhaustive. Skipping over most of it here

1.1 Cognitive Electrophysiology

The field of study known as Cognitive Electrophysiology can be thought of as a spectrum. One side is Cognitive psychology, which concerns itself with the cognitive components of the brain. The other side is Electrophysiology, which concerns itself with the functional properties of the neural networks that make up the brain.