How do I install biosig plug in correctly for eeglab?

Hi, I'm a student wanting to use matlab and eeglab to analyse edf. files I gathered from the Emotiv Epoc EEG headset. However I cannot get the biosig plugin to work, I have the error message on matlab:

EEGLAB: adding "biosig4octmat-" to the path; subfolders (if any) might be missing from the path.

On eeglab the error message is "unsupported data format, (error occurred in function pop_biosig() at line 89)"

I tried downloading biosig using eeglab interface but that gave the same error message.

Can you help asap, as I cannot find any clear instructions online.

Kind regards,

Dominic

[Arnaud Delorme]

Dear Dominic,

Sometimes Firewall block downloads. I have just tried myself from the EEGLAB interface to download the BIOSIG toolbox and it worked. The alternative is to download it manually (from http://biosig.sourceforge.net/download.html) and unzip it in the eeglab/plugins folder.

Hope this helps,

Arno

[jyoti mundra]

Sir i am facing the same problem. I had downloaded it manually and unzipped it in the eeglab/plugins folder.Bu still facing the same issue.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

I used the Add-On Manager to install EEGLAB, and when it finished told it to open the folder. Inside the folder was a program to download eeg lab. I ran that. It opened the web page https://sccn.ucsd.edu/eeglab/downloadtoolbox.php -- so you could skip using the Add-On Manager and just open that page directly.

Once on that page, I clicked on "Click here to download the latest EEGLAB version"; at the moment that is an ftp link to eeglab14_1_0b.zip . I downloaded that into a convenient directory, and unzipped to get a directory. I then went into MATLAB and cd'd to that directory.

Inside that directory in MATLAB, I ran

eeglab

That brings up a blue box with some writing that is a bit difficult to read.

Under the File menu there, I selected "Manage EEGLAB Extensions" and from there "Data Import Extensions". On the first page I clicked on the box beside Biosig and indicated that I wanted to install it and gave the okay. I waited a bit until the main menu re-drew.

Now when I go through File etc to Data Import Extensions, Biosig shows up as having been installed.

[Jesús Leonardo López Hernández]

Hello, I am a student and I have the same problem, error in the function pop_biosig line 88, have you solved the problem?

Leonardo

[Wendy Fullam]

As noted above, if you are using MATLAB R2016a or later, you can do this without leaving MATLAB, with the Add-On Explorer, and the right thing should "just happen".

Whether you need additional toolboxes, apps, hardware support packages, or community submissions, you can easily browse and find what you’re looking for using the Add-On Explorer. Learn more here.

[Caroline]

Thank you!!