The current methodological policy in Psychophysiology
stipulates that repeated-measures designs be analyzed using
either multivariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) or repeated-measures
ANOVA with the Greenhouse–Geisser or Huynh–Feldt
correction. Both techniques lead to appropriate type I
error probabilities under general assumptions about the
variance-covariance matrix of the data. This report introduces
mixed-effects models as an alternative procedure for the
analysis of repeated-measures data in Psychophysiology.
Mixed-effects models have many advantages over the traditional
methods: They handle missing data more effectively and
are more efficient, parsimonious, and flexible. We described
mixed-effects modeling and illustrated its applicability
with a simple example.