Given the rapid development of light weight EEG devices which we have witnessed the past decade, it is reasonable to ask to which extent neuroscience could now be taken outside the lab. In this study, we have designed an EEG paradigm well suited for deployment “in the wild.” The paradigm is tested in repeated recordings on 20 subjects, on eight different occasions (4 in the laboratory, 4 in the subject's own home). By calculating the inter subject, intra subject and inter location variance, we find that the inter location variation for this paradigm is considerably less than the inter subject variation. We believe the paradigm is representative of a large group of other relevant paradigms. This means that given the positive results in this study, we find that if a research paradigm would benefit from being performed in less controlled environments, we expect limited problems in doing so.

鉴于我们在过去的十年中目睹了轻型EEG设备的快速发展，因此合理地询问现在可以将神经科学带到实验室之外的程度是合理的。在这项研究中，我们设计了一种非常适合“野外”部署的EEG范例。在八种不同的情况下（20种受试者在实验室中4种在受试者自己的家中）对20名受试者进行了重复录音，对范例进行了测试。通过计算主体间，主体内和地点间的方差，我们发现该范例的地点间变化大大小于主体间的变化。我们认为，该范式可以代表大量其他相关范式。这意味着，鉴于这项研究的积极结果，