When will NeuroKit3 – the Python toolbox for neurophysiological signal processing appear?

Last Updated on May 17, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

  • If we look at the paper of NeuroKit2:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-020-01516-y

  • And if we look at the wonderful graphs of NeuroKit2 on it’s GITHUB page:

https://github.com/neuropsychology/NeuroKit

  • We think the sensors we introduced in our journal would fit perfectly to NeuroKit2 to make NeuroKit3 out of it:
  • NeuroKit2 is a great piece of work.
  • We had also a lot of work to put together the sensor we presented in our journal.
  • We did not publish this in a scientific paper.
  • But the step from our journal to a scientific paper is not too far.
  • Without NeuroKit3, we will start coding ourselves our own Python software with some of the sensors we introduced.
  • But do not have any plans to publish a paper about software or sell any software
  • We are physiologists, and not software developers.
  • It will take a lot of time to develop our own software, which we currently don’t have.
  • We will do this only if we do not have another option.
  • We will loose a lot of data from the meditators of the MRIS without a suitable software for sensor data aquisition.
  • Most of the sensors we have are difficult to process and analyse.
  • How can a software define itself as a “Python Toolbox for Neurophysiological Signal Processing” without EEG sensors?
  • Integrating the sensors presented in our journal would change this.
  • Is this not an easy job for a coder at the university level?
  • We would be very happy to use NeuroKit3 and write issues about it.
  • With NeuroKit 2, we miss EEG sensors, as well as InfluxDB.
  • Without NeuroKit 3, the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) continues to suffer from a suitable Python Toolbox for Neurophysiological Signal Processing.
  • And the MRIS will continue not to be found on Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=meditation+research+institute+switzerland&btnG=

  • but only on Google picture search:

https://www.google.ch/search?q=Meditation+Research+Institute+Switzerland+(MRIS)&lr=&safe=images&sxsrf=APwXEdedfwnBHO_5LnL4vbXBfnJhkjazcQ:1684259168544&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-jc2rsvr-AhXE7rsIHQr_CE4Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1600&bih=674&dpr=1.2

But we are confident about the future of the MRIS, since it is a meditation research project with a long-term goal who wants to be successful on the long term.