Neuroscan is a well-known company in the EEG recording and analyzing domain. As we can see on the official website https://compumedicsneuroscan.com, the company continues to develop many excellent lines of products and the SynAmps is one of them. The lab accepted SynAmps 2 in 2006 and started to support the first study which was the PI's Ph. D. dissertation about visual awareness. Afterward, several graduate students also used SynAmps 2 to collect and analyze EEG data for their dissertations. However, we do not usually use more traditional approaches to EEG analysis such as EPRs or power spectrums. Instead, we are more often to use dimensionality reduction skills, e.g., MDS, the non-linear dynamical systems theory, i.e., the Chaos theory, and the Small-World theory to implement non-linear net-work analysis of EEG.
SynAmps 2 is a gel-based EEG system so that lab members who are interested in EEG research have to be "gel experts" at first which means that they need to pass the "< 5K ohm test". Then, they will be trained to collect, pre-process and analyze data with the bundled software of SynaAmps 2. For more talented students, advanced training courses of Matlab will be provided to make them acquainted with above-mentioned more fancy EEG analysis skills. The SynAmps 2 in the lab has 64 channels, max sampling rate of 20 kHz, and the bandwidth from DC to 3.5 kHz. It is really an excellent device for academic research of EEG.
