<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><br>I have an issue regarding ICA for artifact correction that I really would appreciate some help with. I would also appreciate if someone could approve or suggest any modifications in my pre-processing order. <br><br>Here is some background information:<br>I have recorded children data (24-month-olds) with EGI, 128 channels. <br>The experiment contains 144 trials (72 per condition) where a picture is presented during 500 ms followed by a word (700 ms) then there is an intertrial of 2500 ms (I trigger the trials manually when the child is looking at the screen).<br>I exported the data, and I am currently starting to pre-process the data using EGGLab.<br>I have created epochs of 3500 ms in order to run ICA to detect eye-movement artifacts (I have chosen 3500ms because I would like to keep as much data as possible for ICA. I would like to compare ERP in shorter epochs of 1000 ms later). <br><br>My pre-processing order is the following:<br> <br>Filtering (1HZ-30Hz),<br>Reducing number of channels to 64 and then removing bad channels<br>Re-referencing to average<br>Epoching (3500ms),<br>Removing baseline, <br>Removing bad epochs <br>Running ICA to detect artifacts <br><br><b>One thing I am not sure about is whether I am re-referencing- at the right point.</b><br><br>Another issue is interpolation. I have read that it is not recomended interpolate before running ICA . So I am removing bad channels before running ICA but as a consequence I am having different amount of channels per subject. I have also read that it is possible interpolate after running ICA but I am not sure how to do it and I have two doubts related to that:<br><br>1- <b>Is it possible interpolate channel in epoched data or is it better to always interpolate in continuous data?</b> I have run ICA in epoched data first and after that I will have to interpolate in the epoched data.<br>2- I have removed bad channels to run ICA, so those channels are not in the list of channels to be interpolated anymore after ICA. <b>So, is there a way to interpolate after removing channels?<br><br><br></b>Thanks in advance for your help,<br><br>--<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature">Andrea <br><br></div>
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