<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I plan to perform some time-frequency analyses on task and resting EEG data, but I am concerned about the effect causal/non-causal filtering on analyses involving phase measures. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The default in pop_eegfiltnew (on EEGLAB v11.0.4.3b or v13.2.1) is a 'non-causal' filter (minphase setting = 0, thus applying filtfilt). It seems that non-causal filters 'distort' the causal relationships between signals, but unlike causal filters, which introduce a linear phase shift across frequencies. If I am going to do e.g., phase locking between different frequencies or phase-amplitude coupling, will the phase shifts affect the validity of the results (i.e., don't use causal filters)? Or is there anything more undesirable with the correction of phase lag on phase measures (i.e., don't use non-causal filters)?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am still a novice on signal processing, so any comments and corrections on wrong concepts will be very helpful. Thank you very much!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Eric</div></div>