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Commercial ERP software is often inflexible and may be of little use to investigators using nontraditional forms of ERP analysis. An approach to this problem is presented usingMathematica, a high-level, symbolic mathematics and graphical programming language and environment. A description of the software and its application to ERP data are included, as are examples. Sample graphical output is also provided.
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Development of this software was supported by NIH Grant DC01323 and Washington and Lee University. The authors wish to thank T. Bashore and two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this paper.
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Lorig, T.S., Urbach, T.P. Event-related potential analysis usingMathematica . Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 27, 358–366 (1995). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200430
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