<div dir="ltr">Dear Jose,<div><br></div><div>> I'm aware of the several methods to correct these artefacts. Also, I'm aware that the mental effort involved in suppressing eye blinks may impair task performance, and this can be even more pertinent when we deal with psychiatric subjects (a simple task can become a double task).</div><div><br></div><div>That's great to start with.</div><div><br></div><div>> However, could be this be an issue in a purely visual task? because when a subject blinks during the stimulus display she/he is simply not seeing the stimulus (or at least not seeing the way it could see it when is not blinking). Couldn't be better to have a blinking period?</div><div><br></div><div>If you have a separate blink period during which subjects may blink, then subjects must control the blink behavior accordingly, which occupies one of the cognitive slots for the top-down control on behavior; this introduces a dual-task.<br></div><div><br></div><div>> Also, even if we remove artefactual activity from the data, I wonder if blinking could have an effect on the cognitive process we want to measure,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I've seen papers reporting that blinking is related to attention, and I know that blink is also related to dopamine system. If this is true, it means there is temporal correlation between experimental events and blinks.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think that let subjects blink freely during the experiment (i.e. release the cognitive slot) and use ICA as a post-process is the best solution to deal with eye blink artifact. Some people used to say that the process of IC selection is arbitrary, but now there are multiple toolboxes available for that purpose. It may not be a too bad idea to try out these EEGLAB toolboxes. See also <a href="http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Std_selectICsByCluster">http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Std_selectICsByCluster</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Makoto</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 3:24 PM, José Luis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joseluisulloafulgeri@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseluisulloafulgeri@gmail.com</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">Hello,<br><br>I’m working at the Clinical Research Unit in the Ville-Evrard Hospital in France. We are planning to perform EEG studies in psychiatric subjects. In this context, we would like to do classical experiments such as oddball, stroop and lexical decision.<br><br>Looking the literature on ERP studies, I realise that often these paradigms do not include a "blinking" period, i.e., a period where one explicitly ask the participant to perform eye movements (blinking or saccades). I'm aware of the several methods to correct these artefacts. Also, I'm aware that the mental effort involved in suppressing eye blinks may impair task performance, and this can be even more pertinent when we deal with psychiatric subjects (a simple task can become a double task). However, could be this be an issue in a purely visual task? because when a subject blinks during the stimulus display she/he is simply not seeing the stimulus (or at least not seeing the way it could see it when is not blinking). Couldn't be better to have a blinking period? Also, even if we remove artefactual activity from the data, I wonder if blinking could have an effect on the cognitive process we want to measure,<br><br>Any comment will be appreciated,<br>José Luis<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">José Luis ULLOA FULGERI, PhD<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/joseluisulloafulgeri/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/joseluisulloafulgeri/</a><br>33 (0)6.29.50.64.93<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"></span></span></span></span></span></div></div>
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