Journal Article

Issues and recommendations from the OHBM COBIDAS MEEG committee for reproducible EEG and MEG research

Michel, Christoph M, Pang, Elizabeth, Puce Aina, Gramfort Alexandre, Pernet Cyril, Maurits Natasha, Salmelin Riitta, Valdes-Sosa, Pedro A, Garrido, Marta I, Schoffelen Jan Mathijs

2020

Overview

The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) has been active in advocating for the instantiation of best practices in neuroimaging data acquisition, analysis, reporting and sharing of both data and analysis code to deal with issues in science related to reproducibility and replicability. Here we summarize recommendations for such practices in magnetoencephalographic (MEG) and electroencephalographic (EEG) research, recently developed by the OHBM neuroimaging community known by the abbreviated name of COBIDAS MEEG. We discuss the rationale for the guidelines and their general content, which encompass many topics under active discussion in the field. We highlight future opportunities and challenges to maximizing the sharing and exploitation of MEG and EEG data, and we also discuss how this ‘living’ set of guidelines will evolve to continually address new developments in neurophysiological assessment methods and multimodal integration of neurophysiological data with other data types.The Organization for Human Brain Mapping presents its best practices report for reproducible EEG and MEG research, highlighting issues and main recommendations in this Perspective.

• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Subject: Brain / Brain architecture / Brain mapping / Data acquisition / Data analysis / EEG / Electroencephalography / Exploitation / Guidelines / Image processing / Magnetoencephalography / Mapping / Medical imaging / Neuroimaging / Reproducibility / Sensory integration