Matt Craddock

University of Lincoln

About me

I'm a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist. I currently research how pre-stimulus brain activity influences perception. I use electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI), and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS).

Since January 2018, I’ve been a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln, UK, where I teach research methods and statistics using R. Before that, I was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK.

From my blog

The Time-Frequency Transform

EEG processing with Python, but in R: redux

Two years ago I wrote a post demonstrating Python pre-processing of EEG data using Python chunks in an RMarkdown document. This worked …

Apr 28, 2019 4 min read EEG, ERPs, R, ggplot2, Python, MNE, MNE-r

Building up an ERP

How averaging over repetitions produces an event related potential and separates signal from noise

Aug 21, 2018 3 min read EEG, ERPs, ggplot2, eegUtils

More on reaction times

I previously replicated some simulations from a journal article by Ratcliff (1993) 1. These sims demonstrate that transformations such …

Apr 8, 2018 6 min read RTs, statistics

Analysing reaction times - Revisiting Ratcliff (1993) (pt 1)

Reaction times are a very common outcome measure in psychological science. Frequently, people use the mean to summarise reaction time …

Dec 4, 2017 12 min read RTs, outliers, Ratcliff, statistics

Recent Publications

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Valeria Bekhtereva, Matt Craddock, Christopher Gundlach, Matthias M. Müller (2019). Rapid sensory gain with emotional distracters precedes attentional deployment from a foreground task. NeuroImage.

Petra M. J. Pollux, Matthew Craddock, Kun Guo (2019). Gaze patterns in viewing static and dynamic body expressions. Acta Psychologica.

Matt Craddock, Ekaterini Klepousniotou, Wael El-Deredy, Ellen Poliakoff, Donna Lloyd (2019). Transcranial alternating current stimulation at 10 Hz modulates response bias in the Somatic Signal Detection Task. International Journal of Psychophysiology.

Matt Craddock, Ellen Poliakoff, Wael El-deredy, Ekaterini Klepousniotou, Donna M. Lloyd (2017). Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations over somatosensory cortex predict tactile misperceptions. Neuropsychologia.

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