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

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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.

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Fig. 1: Overview of the total number of MEEG publications with emerging research fields.
Fig. 2: Standard MEEG preprocessing steps.
Fig. 3: Illustration of source modelling approaches.

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The Committee thanks the hundreds of OHBM members who provided feedback on the early version of the report and on the website. Thank you to T. Nichols for his insightful comments on an earlier draft of this Perspective.

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C.P. and A.P. chaired the committee, planned the overall structure of the COBIDAS document and this manuscript. Each author contributed to entire sections of the COBIDAS document used for this manuscript, and all authors contributed and reviewed this manuscript.

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Pernet, C., Garrido, M.I., Gramfort, A. et al. Issues and recommendations from the OHBM COBIDAS MEEG committee for reproducible EEG and MEG research. Nat Neurosci 23, 1473–1483 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-00709-0

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