<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hello Roma,<br><br></div>Why did your friend say you can't use 250 Hz? Sampling rates of 250, 500, 1000 Hz or more are standard in EEG (at least in all the research I'm aware of). In general, sampling higher than you need is never a problem (other than the fact that the files you get will be bigger, which is only a problem if you have limited disk space), whereas sampling at a lower rate than you need can be a big problem (read about the Nyquist theorem to understand why). I would never recommend sampling at 20 Hz because this only allows you to look at activity 10 Hz and lower; eye blinks might fall below that threshhold (although I would not count on it---I suspect that the frequency of peoples' blink components may vary from one person to another, some people take bigger or longer blinks than others--and in your own message above you suggest that eye blinks might be in 8-13 Hz, which is already passing the 10 Hz threshhold) but a lot of cognitive activity certainly does not. <br><br></div><div>For more information on what sampling rate means, there are introductory texts available, e.g. Luck's "An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique".<br></div><div><br></div>Regarding your specific questions:<br><br></div>1) yes, this is the definition of sampling rate. Sampling at 20 Hz means you acquire 20 samples per second.<br></div>2) Unless you have reason to do otherwise, use the highest reasonable sampling rate that your hardware can handle and that is common in your area of research (read related papers to see how they do it). You can always downsample later. Me, for example, I always sample at 1000 Hz (with a 200 Hz online low-pass filter) because this is standard in my field, it makes the math easy (1 sample = 1 millisecond), and the 200 Hz filter means I can analyze data at frequencies up to around 70 Hz, which is enough to include the cognitive signals that are interest to me (if I were interested in e.g. high gamma activity around 90+ Hz, I would need to use a higher filter and possibly a higher sampling rate). To reiterate: there is no drawback to using a higher sampling rate, as long as your hardware can handle it and you have enough disk space to save the data.<br></div>3) This means the signal associated with the blink component has a frequency of about 8-13 Hz, i.e., if you lined up a bunch of blinks together you could fit 8-13 of them in one second.<br></div>4) EEGLAB has a resample() function.<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br></div>Stephen Politzer-Ahles<br>New York University, Abu Dhabi<br>Neuroscience of Language Lab<br><a href="http://www.nyu.edu/projects/politzer-ahles/" target="_blank">http://www.nyu.edu/projects/politzer-ahles/</a><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Roma Nojan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roma.nojan@yahoo.com" target="_blank">roma.nojan@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div>Dear EEGLAB Members:</div><div dir="ltr">I have question related to eye blink artifact. I need to know the convenient number of samples that can represent the blink. I have to know that since I am comparing eye blink event to normal EEG data(EEG data without artifacts) by using an automatic way. At first, I used the same sampling rate which is 250 Hz for both the blink and the normal EEG, but later a friend told me that you can not use the same sampling rate and said 20 Hz will be enough,so my questions are:</div><div dir="ltr">1- Is using 20 Hz sampling rate for the blink means that I can not acquire more than 20 samples per second?</div><div dir="ltr">2-What is the sampling rate that I should use for eye blink?</div><div dir="ltr">3-What it means for the blink to have 8-13 Hz rhythm then?</div><div dir="ltr">4-If I have to down sample the data what is the convenient way to do that ?</div><div dir="ltr">I will appreciate that if you can also send me sources that can help me about the eye blink behavior.</div><div dir="ltr">Thank you in advance </div><div dir="ltr">Marwa</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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