Mining Spatio-Spectro-Temporal Cortical Dynamics: A Guideline for Offline and Online Electrocorticographic Analyses

Recent advances in the technology of electrocorticography (ECoG) allow accessing neural activity from most of the cortex, which poses the challenge of extracting relevant information from an overwhelming amount of data. In this chapter, we will present useful routines for identifying statistically significant features in high-dimensional ECoG signals (offline analysis) and for establishing decoding models that can translate ECoG signals to specific behavioral measures in real time (online analysis). We will use our data, which are freely available online, in a step-by-step demonstration and will highlight useful MATLAB toolboxes for trouble-free implementation.

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