EEG from zero

Short lessons that take you from what EEG is to a working pattern-recognition pipeline. Read a lesson, take its quiz, and use the interactive pages to see the ideas move.

Lessons

Start here

  1. 00 EEG from zero: the series and how to use it

Beginner

  1. 01 What EEG is, and what it isn't Quiz (8 questions)
  2. 02 Neurons and electricity: where the signal comes from Quiz (8 questions)
  3. 03 From brain to file: the signal path Quiz (6 questions)
  4. 04 Brain waves: delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma Quiz (8 questions)
  5. 05 The brain's regions and what they do Quiz (6 questions)
  6. 06 Electrodes and the 10–20 system Quiz (6 questions)

Intermediate

  1. 07 Noise and artifacts: blinks, muscle, heart, mains hum Coming soon
  2. 08 How noise is cancelled: references and montages Coming soon
  3. 09 Recording: sampling, Nyquist, impedance and devices Coming soon
  4. 10 EEG data formats and BIDS: a data engineer's view Coming soon
  5. 11 Event-related potentials: P300, N170, MMN Coming soon
  6. 12 Reading a spectrum: PSD, band power, spectrogram Coming soon

Advanced

  1. 13 Epilepsy: spikes, spike-and-wave, seizure detection Coming soon
  2. 14 Sleep: stages, spindles, K-complexes and apnea Coming soon
  3. 15 Dementia and Parkinson's: slowing and beta Coming soon
  4. 16 Brain injury, coma, stroke and brain death Coming soon
  5. 17 ADHD, depression, schizophrenia, autism: promising and debated markers Coming soon
  6. 18 Where does it come from? Topomaps and source localization Coming soon

Expert

  1. 19 The EEG data pipeline end to end Coming soon
  2. 20 The EEG toolbox: libraries and open datasets Coming soon
  3. 21 Preprocessing in practice Coming soon
  4. 22 Features: from band power to Riemannian covariance Coming soon
  5. 23 Models: from LDA and CSP to EEG foundation models Coming soon
  6. 24 Evaluating honestly: splits, leakage and small data Coming soon
  7. 25 Scaling EEG data: storage, streaming, privacy, versioning Coming soon
  8. 26 Open problems and where data engineers can help Coming soon
  9. 27 Hands-on: your first EEG classifier with MNE-Python Coming soon

Wrap-up

  1. 28 Cheat sheet and learning roadmap Coming soon

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Interactive pages

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Brain regions and electrodes Tap a part of the brain to see what it does, the electrodes over it and the rhythms recorded there Beginner Lessons 5, 6 Open → Band mixer Mix delta, theta, alpha, beta and gamma into one trace and watch its spectrum change Beginner Lessons 4, 12 Open → The signal chain Send a brain signal through the skull, noise, amplifier, filter and digitiser, one stage at a time Intermediate Lessons 3, 8, 9 Open →
Montage switcher See one recording in bipolar, average and linked-ear montages and what each one changes Intermediate Lesson 8 Coming soon