<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#333399">Greetings Eric, some thoughts that may be useful below. In your case the best solution might be to compare the data across several different kinds of pre-processing steps, and show that the giant single-person peak is an artifact or not. It may certainly be due to individual variability, take a look at normal values and variability of alpha in studies that have used large samples, and compare those published values to the values you are getting. One question to consider is whether you see this giant peak for one person at channel-level and at ICA-level, and whether the peak is stronger with ICA. Another question is what the range of values is for other individuals' alpha peaks. Last, try to double check your raw data, both it it's continuous form, and with only "clean" epochs, in order to determine whether the individual's data is normal at that level compared to the data from other people.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#333399"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#333399"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Eric HG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erichg2013@gmail.com" target="_blank">erichg2013@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everybody,<div><br></div><div>There has been one resting-state EEG from a healthy subject that we have analyzed that has huge alpha peaks resulting in huge power values at baseline (like 15-17) in the alpha band and this is only when the subjects have their eyes closed. Has anyone experienced something like this? Could it be due to the preprocessing steps (I've used Butterworth filter: H-pass: 1 Hz and L-pass: 100 Hz, epoched the data and then removed the epochs with a lot of artifacts)?</div><div>The ICA can easily separate the alpha peak components.</div><div><br></div><div>Or can it just be due to individual variability?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Eric</div></div>
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