<div dir="ltr">Dear Neil,<div><br></div><div>> Does anyone have a good sense on whether it would be valid to combine epochs from the same EEG session, but different tasks in order to maximise data for ICA decomposition?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Yes, it is valid. Of course the cost is that you may lose ICA's sensitivity to each of the task.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">> similar artifacts to be removed (eye movement, muscle, line noise).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Yes. In addition, cognition-common brain mechanisms as well (attention, alertness, etc)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">> However, the underlying neural activity will differ between the tasks (for example the Sternberg working memory task generates a large amount of posterior alpha, while the Go/Nogo task does not, but does generate a large N2 and P3 component).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As long as each of the task design is established and sensitive to evoke ERP, it should be fine.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Before wondering, you can try </div><div class="gmail_extra">1. separate data into subsets with different tasks and run ICA on each</div><div class="gmail_extra">2. run ICA on task-concatenated data</div><div class="gmail_extra">and compare results to evaluate the trade off (it will be confusing and hard though)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Makoto</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Neil Bailey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neil.bailey@monash.edu" target="_blank">neil.bailey@monash.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have a good sense on whether it would be valid to combine epochs from the same EEG session, but different tasks in order to maximise data for ICA decomposition?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm aware that feeding more data into the ICA gets better results, and the data from the different tasks will have similar artifacts to be removed (eye movement, muscle, line noise). However, the underlying neural activity will differ between the tasks (for example the Sternberg working memory task generates a large amount of posterior alpha, while the Go/Nogo task does not, but does generate a large N2 and P3 component).</div><div><br></div><div>Will the differences in the underlying neural activity between tasks negatively affect the results of the ICA if activity from different tasks is combined? And will it matter if the epochs from different tasks are of different lengths?</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Neil Bailey (PhD)</div><div>Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre</div><div><a href="mailto:Neil.Bailey@Monash.edu" target="_blank">Neil.Bailey@Monash.edu</a></div><div>(03) 9076 5032</div></div></div></div></div>
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