Fieldtrip
Website: http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/
Fieldtrip is an MEG/EEG analysis software package developed at the Donders Institute. Fieldtrip has a number of options for time-frequency analysis and coherence analysis, and starting with SPM8 shares functions and data format with SPM.
Locally Fieldtrip is installed in:
/imaging/local/software/fieldtrip
The Fieldtrip developers release nightly snapshots of the code, so Fieldtrip "versions" are denoted by date. To use FieldTrip, add one of these folders to your Matlab path, e.g.:
addpath /imaging/local/software/fieldtrip/fieldtrip-20091108
Fieldtrip will be updated when there are major changes to the code, or otherwise just to keep current with development.
Key features
- No GUI, so some Matlab knowledge is required
- Analyses are generally highly customizable
- Shares data format with SPM8
- Strengths include time/frequency analysis, coherence measures, and nonparametric statistics
Getting started
The best place to start is the series of excellent tutorials on the Fieldtrip website: http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/getting_started and http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial.