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<span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I have an issue regarding ICA for artifact correction that I really would appreciate some help with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Here is some background information: I have recorded child data (2 years old) with EGI, 128 channels. Before export to EEGLab, the data has been band-pass filtered 1-30 Hz, epoched, clearly bad epochs (with more artifacts than just eye artifacts)
were removed, and bad channels in the remaining epochs were interpolated. The data was rereferenced to average mastoid reference. I then imported into EEGlab, which treats the data as continuous, but has all the event information. I have then performed ICA
in order to correct for eye artifacts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">The problem (please see the image files located at following links):</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7016081/DataPlots.jpg">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7016081/DataPlots.jpg</a></div>
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</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4">In (at least) two data files, besides some clear eye artifact components (components 1 & 11: blink; component 7: horizontal eye movement), the ICA also found two components that look
like pure high frequency noise (components 2 & 3).<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When I remove the eye artifact components (1,7 & 11), the eye artifacts are in fact removed, BUT the data looks generally “noisier”, i.e. the channels overall are fuzzier (see the image “DataPlots” for comparisons). When I calculated individual
averages with this data, it indeed contained massive amounts of high frequency noise that was not present in the averages where I did not use ICA at all but instead removed all epochs containing eye artifacts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I then continued and tested removing the “noise components” (2 & 3), and the data then looked like it did originally, minus the eye artifacts. It didn’t seem to have a major effect on the ERP components either, but of course removed the high
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<b>My main questions are:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How can noise be “added” to the data, after removal of certain components? How can I determine what type of noise components 2 & 3 consist of? I’ve looked at the frequency plots, but I
don’t think it’s very clear. Can it be line noise, or EMG? The scalp topographies are very widespread, and EMG is usually more laterally located. Should it be ok to just remove these two components when they appear, or is there a risk that they contain cognitive
components?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Many thanks for any input you can give me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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