Week 2: Research Background

Class Recordings

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Announcements

Week 2 Topics

  • Literature Review

  • ML + BCI example papers x 3

  • Your Understanding of the field

Monday

Recap Notes last week

  • Highlight the muse-read

  • Hands-on in-class exercises

  • Revisit class formats: Asynchronous, Remote, and in-person.

  • Revisit Lab 1 requirements

What is Literature Review?

Review the history of research in this research area, Identify Research Gaps.

  • Research Problems

  • Research Design

  • Research Analysis

  • Research Data

  • Research Write-Up

Let’s look at literature review paper examples.

How to Use Google scholar

  • Search Keywords Selection

  • Title

  • Author

  • Citation Number

  • Citation Format

  • Full-text Available?

more details on Google Scholar Help Page

Lotte_2018, EEG-based BCI

  • Search the paper title 'A review of classification algorithms for EEG-based brain–computer interfaces'

  • Full-text paper available online

  • Cited by 974

  • Related paper, Lotte 2007, cited by 2977

  • Author, Fabien Lotte, cited by 11861

  • Research Problems

  • Research Methods

  • Future work (unsolved research questions)

  • Machine Learning details

  • Brain-Computer Interfaces details

Wednesday

Craik_2019, Deep Learning

  • Search the paper title 'Deep learning for electroencephalogram (EEG) classification tasks: a review'

  • Full-text paper available online

  • Cited by 434

  • Author, Alexander Craik, cited by 449

  • Co-Author, Jose L Contreras-Vidal, PhD,cited by 6398

  • Research Problems

  • Research Methods

  • Future work (unsolved research questions)

  • Deep Learning details

  • Brain-Computer Interfaces details

Find Your Co-author

Please use the Google Sheet here: Student Pairs in, Labs → Co-authors

Take Lecture Notes, Group 2

Please review the group assignments: Letcture_notes_groups Group 2, please starts it, thanks.

Friday

Roy_2019, Deep Learning

  • Search the paper title 'Deep learning-based electroencephalography analysis: a systematic review'

  • Full-text paper available online

  • Cited by 415

  • Author, Yannick Roy, cited by 425

  • Research Methods

  • Future work (unsolved research questions)

  • Deep Learning details

  • Brain-Computer Interfaces details