<div>Greetings Bagas,</div>
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<div>1. Yes, there are multiple papers that refer to this issue. I would suggest you start</div>
<div>with the HANDBOOKS by Tom Handy or Steve Luck, and these will answer your basic questions about the relations</div>
<div>between trial counts, averaged ERPs, and the resultant signal-to-noise ratios. </div>
<div>You can find these books by doing a Google search, and you can order them from Amazon or another bookseller.</div>
<div>Here's the link for the Handy handbook: <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10253&ttype=2">http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10253&ttype=2</a></div>
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<div>2. Your second question is not clear. It's not clear what you mean by "many trials" or only "single-trials" in one epoch.</div>
<div>For information about best practice using EEGLAB and ICA, please read through the EEGLAB tutorial online.</div>
<div>A general rule of thumb is that more single trials are better than fewer single trials, for an accurate ICA decomposition of the data.</div>
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<div>3. Again, you should read and learn basic information about ERP techniques from handbooks mentioned in Point 1 above,</div>
<div>or in articles that use ERPs (please search on Google Scholar for examples that relate to your research questions). </div>
<div>It also not clear what you mean by using "only one technique".</div>
<div>You can generate average ERPs without using ICA, and you can also generate ERPs after using ICA.</div>
<div>Please be aware that the emphasis in EEGLAB is on single-trial analysis, although it can certainly be used for single subject average ERPs.</div>
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<div>4. In the future please try to be more specific about what you are trying to do, what kind of ERPs you are trying to generate.</div>
<div>Also it seems that you are unaware of the the many potential uses of ICA (for artifact detection, for detection of independent modulators, etc..)</div>
<div>Please read through the articles describing EEGLAB (which you can find at the EEGLAB site, or via Google Scholar).</div>
<div>Please also read through and do the EEGLAB tutorial, which will answer some of your questions.</div>
<div>Then feel free to send some more questions after that.</div>
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<div>Good luck Bagas!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Bagas Isadewa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:izadewa@yahoo.com">izadewa@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>hello,<br><br>i have several questions, <br><br>1. if I wanted to average EEG data to yields good ERP, how many minimum trials do I needed ? is there any paper or journals that explained about it ?<br>2. then, if I wanted to run ICA to extract ERP, do I need many trials or only single-trials in one epoch will be enough ??<br>
3. is it necessary to run ICA first then do averaging or it is enough to use only one technique for extracting ERP ?<br><br>if you don't mind please give me an explanation<br>thank you very much<br><br><br>regards,<br>
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