populations might fruitfully explore differential effects on frontal, parietal and other cortical areas, for instance using high resolution EEG methods with many electrodes, spatial deblurring and MRI co-registration [44]. Amongst the many types of analysis available, the simplest form of spectral analysis into traditional frequency bands was used to parameterize the EEG. The beta band and theta band EEG power variables chosen by the divergence analysis may not be the best measures of alcohol’s effect during naturalistic situations. They are merely variables that were most effective in combination when characterizing alcohol effects 30 minutes after drinking during performance of repetitive cognitive tasks in one sample of healthy adults. Other analyses such as, time-frequency analysis, independent component analysis, autoregressive models of various sorts, nonlinear dynamical models, etc. might be more effective.
