EEG-Blinks

Tools for analyzing eye blinks from EEG data

Contains tools for the BLINKER pipeline for automatically extracting blinks and related ocular indices from EEG. You can find user documention at: http://vislab.github.io/EEG-Blinks/

This version has Eye-catch embedded. The original code for Eye-catch is available at https://github.com/bigdelys/eye-catch.

Installing as a plugin in EEGLAB

You can install blinker as a plugin from EEGLAB plugin manager. However, if you want to install from GitHub:

1. Download this repository.
2. Rename the blinker directory blinkerv1.2.0.
3. Copy the blinkerv1.2.0 into the EEGLAB/plugins directory.

Citing the BLINKER pipeline

BLINKER is freely available under the GNU General Public License. Please cite the following publication if using:

Kleifges K, Bigdely-Shamlo N, Kerick S, and Robbins KA
BLINKER: Automated extraction of ocular indices from EEG enabling large-scale analysis. Front. Neurosci. 11:12. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00012.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2017.00012/abstract

People

The primary developers of BLINKER are Kelly Kliefgas and Kay Robbins of UTSA. BLINKER also uses Eye-Catch developed by Nima Bigdely-Shamlo while at USCS SCCN to eliminate independent components that are not eye-related. Kay Robbins of UTSA maintains BLINKER.

Releases

1.0.1 2/22/2017 Implemented combine-by-subject and date for determining max distributions 1.0.2 3/9/2017 Implemented insertion of blink events into EEG structure 1.1.0 3/17/2017 Implemented insertion of additional blink features as events and constructed zeroed blink signal 1.1.1 9/6/2018 Modified getBlinkEvents to not include leading slashes in HED tags 1.2.0 8/28/2022 Incorporated eyeCatch since not easily available elsewhere.

Support

This research was sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory and was
accomplished under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF-10-2-0022.
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