Hello Rajesh,<br><br>Welcome to EEGLAB. "Frames" in EEGLAB are the same as samples (so if you sampled at 1000 Hz your data will have 1000 frames each second).<br><br>As for epochs: you are right that the EEG is collected continuously, but part of the procedure for analyzing event-related potentials from EEG is to later "chop" the signal into segments time-locked to an event such as a stimulus (see Luck, 2005, <i>An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique</i>). EEGLAB treats the continuous data as consisting of one long epoch, whereas after chopping up the data it consists of multiple small epochs. So that's why you see EEGLAB reporting that there is one epoch even when you are loading continuous data.<br>
<br>Best,<br>Steve Politzer-Ahles<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:44 PM, D.rajesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rajeshlearnstorock@yahoo.com">rajeshlearnstorock@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><br></div><div> Hi ,</div><div><br>
</div><div> I am new to EEG lab and to the subject. I'd like to know what is meant</div><div>by 'epoch' in EEG. Isn't the EEG signal is collected continuously in time ? Then where</div><div>does the concept of 'epoch' and 'frames' come from and what do they mean ?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Rajesh.D</div><div><br></div> </font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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