Joshua is designing an EEG study to examine how brain activity changes in response to a picture of a familiar versus novel face. In order to ensure that he can detect the brain response from the noise, what should Joshua do?

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To ensure that Joshua can detect the brain response from the noise, he should present participants with several trials of both familiar and unique faces. This approach increases the reliability of the data by averaging across trials, which helps in distinguishing the signal (brain response to the stimuli) from the noise (random brain activity).

Joshua Is Designing an EEG Study to Examine How Brain