<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">Greetings Joseph, some thoughts below, cheers!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">1. If there was a stimulus every 3000 ms or so in both Block1 and Block2 trials, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">then you should be able to cut each Block 1 trial into one -500 to 3000ms epoch</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">and for each Block 2 trial into about 17 epochs of -500 to 3000ms . So you'll have more epochs from Block 2.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">Having similar epochs across the Blocks is better for eeglab, and makes it easier for you to compare the conditions later.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">Using different length epochs if you have a good a-priori reason to from the published literature.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">2. You may want to google past eeglab posts on baselining. See also mentions there of Groppe et al., paper on baselining or not before ICA. See also two baselining paper titles below.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">3. Try both, it won't hurt, and it should look similar. I think baselining before ICA is recommended in Makoto's online pipeline list but please double-check.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">4. Normalizing usually means that the units have been modified to be more comparable across subjects (e.g., to -1 to 1). Depends on how you normalize the signal in question, and whether you normalize by channel(s), time(s), or subject. Probably best to review descriptions of specific kinds of normalization you'd like to emulate in the published literature, and go from there. Also, take a look at the values in the channel power before and after normalizing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Single-Trial Normalization for Event-Related Spectral Decomposition Reduces Sensitivity to Noisy Trials
</pre><div><h3 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:19px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Single-trial time–frequency analysis of electrocortical signals: <b>Baseline </b>correction and beyond</h3></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Joseph Nuamah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jknuamah@aggies.ncat.edu" target="_blank">jknuamah@aggies.ncat.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Everyone,<br><br>I have a data set from an experiment that had two blocks of trials.<br><br>Each block had 30 trials. Whereas each trial in block 1 had a duration of 6000ms, each trial in block 2 had a duration of 60 000 ms. The ISI for both blocks was 3000 ms.<br><br>The sampling frequency was 256Hz. A trial ended when a participant clicked the mouse button. I found out that for both cases, participants clicked the mouse before elapse of the stipulated trial duration.<br><br>My questions are:<br><br>1. What epoch lengths do I use for both blocks? Are -500ms to 3000ms, and -500 to 5000ms okay for block 1 and block 2 respectively?<br><br>2. For time-frequency transforms, do I need to subtract the baseline from the data before I do the transformation?<br><br>3. As a follow up from question 2, do I perform ICA before the subtraction?<br><br>4. What is the effect of normalizing the data before computing the power in each channel? <br><br></div>Thanks.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Joseph.<br></font></span></div>
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