“…The present study examines the effectiveness of a common approach to dealing with eyeblinks and other artifacts that produce extreme values, in which artifacts with stable scalp distributions are corrected using independent component analysis (ICA; Chaumon et al, 2015;Jung, Makeig, Humphries, et al, 2000;Jung, Makeig, Westerfield, et al, 2000) and any trials that have extreme voltage deflections in any channel in the corrected data are also excluded from the averaged ERPs (artifact rejection; Islam et al, 2016;Nolan et al, 2010). This general approach is used very widely: in the first 10 issues of the 2023 volume of Psychophysiology, there were at least 18 papers that used some variant of this general approach (see Addante et al, 2023;Arnau et al, 2023;Bruchmann et al, 2023;Chen & Chen, 2023;Fan et al, 2023;Hubbard et al, 2023;Lin et al, 2023;Liu et al, 2023;Morales et al, 2023;Nguyen et al, 2023;Nicolaisen-Sobesky et al, 2023;Paraskevoudi & SanMiguel, 2023;Ringer et al, 2023;Schmuck et al, 2023;Sun et al, 2023;Tao et al, 2023;Wood et al, 2023;Zheng et al, 2023).…”