High and dry? Comparing active dry EEG electrodes to active and passive wet electrodes

Psychophysiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 74-82

  Mathewson, Kyle E ^a   Harrison, Tyler J L ^a   Kizuk, Sayeed A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active electrodes; Dry electrodes; Event related potential; Impedance; P3

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTIFACT; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; DEVICES; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ARTIFACTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85006459222     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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