<div dir="ltr">Dear eeglab-community,<div><br></div><div><div>for our resting baseline measurements we would like to compute the power for Theta, Alpha and Beta. In the <a href="http://ch.mathworks.com/help/signal/examples/practical-introduction-to-frequency-domain-analysis.html">eeglab-tutorial</a> we read that calculating the power spectral density with pwelch <span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17.992px">would yield a smoother power spectrum with power values closer to the expected values.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17.992px"><br></span></div><div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:16px">Our questions are:</div></div><div><div id=":1of.ma" class="" style="margin-bottom:6px;margin-left:9px;margin-right:9px;word-wrap:break-word"><div><ul style=""><li style=""><span style="line-height:16px">What is the difference between power spectrum <span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:"Roboto Slab","Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><b>(V^2/Hz)</b></span> and power-spectral density <b>(</b></span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:17.992px"><b>watts/Hz)</b> in </span><span style="line-height:16px">lay terminology for a non-electrophysiologist? Here we read tons of discussions on research gate and other pages, but the difference was mainly defined in units instead of really explaining the meaningful difference. Any literature on that would be highly appreciated.</span></li><li><font color="#404040" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.992px">what do we actually get out from averaging the power spectral density for a specific frequency range</span></font><font color="#404040" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.992px">, coded as </span></font><b>mean(PSD(F>=fFreqency & F<=lastFreq))</b>; <font size="1"><font color="#404040" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.992px">(e.g. </span></font>fFreqency = 3.5 lastFrequency 7.5 for Theta<font color="#404040" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.992px">)</span></font> </font></li></ul><div><span style="line-height:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:16px">Thank you very much in advance.</span></div><div><span style="line-height:16px">Agnieszka</span></div><div><span style="line-height:16px"><br></span></div></div></div><div id=":1og.ma" class="" title="27.06.16, 15:25" style="font-size:13px;line-height:16px;margin-bottom:6px;margin-left:9px;margin-right:9px;word-wrap:break-word"><div id=":1og.at" class="" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(38,50,56);white-space:normal"></div><span id=":1og.co" class="" dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(38,50,56)"></span></div></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div>
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