<div dir="ltr">Thank you very much for your answer<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ihshan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 4:14 PM Stephen Politzer-Ahles <<a href="mailto:politzerahless@gmail.com">politzerahless@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The short answer is, no, a short epoch is not necessary for all types of experiment, but it is necessary for many types of experiment.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are analyzing event-related potentials, it is not meaningful to analyze more than a short epoch, because beyond the first couple seconds the EEG signal will be affected by so many subsequent events it will be impossible to tell what's going on. I recommend you read Luck's <i>An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique </i>(2005/2014) to better understand this concept. On the other hand, for experiments where the research question is not about what the brain does in response to a certain stimulus, but is about patterns of brain activity over a longer period of time, event-related potential analysis may not be necessary. It really depends what research question you are hoping to answer.<br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4844588119893067716m_-8520269909319893328gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span><div>---<br></div>Stephen Politzer-Ahles<br>The Hong Kong Polytechnic University<br>Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies<br><a href="http://www.mypolyuweb.hk/~sjpolit/" target="_blank">http://www.mypolyuweb.hk/~sjpolit/</a></span><a href="http://www.nyu.edu/projects/politzer-ahles/" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 2:38 PM Vibra Lab <<a href="mailto:labvibra@gmail.com" target="_blank">labvibra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues of EEGLAB, </div><div><br></div><div>I need your help to strengthen my understanding so that it can sharpen my analysis. </div><div><br></div>Let me describe my study. A person is given 4 sections (in total around 60 minutes for all sections for each participant). For each section, participant is given various questions that they need to answer. i.e. it's like a conversation. Due to the nature of the experiment, the length of each section for each participant varies. For instance, for section <b>one </b>(for 4 participants) there are <b>4 different lengths</b> of time window (10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, and 25 minutes). In relation to that, I have several questions as follow :<div><br></div><div>1. Can I just <b>directly </b>analyze such full length of time window (considering after pre-processing the data), <b>e.g. 10 minutes</b>, instead of dividing them into 30 - 40 epochs out of 10 minutes ?</div><div><br></div><div>2. Something that I still don't get the reason behind epoch is, <b>why do we have to create data into epochs ?</b> since the tutorial always uses epoch. I really appreciate if you could give me such reasoning for this. Since the beginning I learn ERP I still don't understand the significance of creating epoch.</div><div><br></div><div>3. Why is the duration of epoch is always short ? I rarely find epoch for more than 1 minute.</div><div><br></div><div>4. If I need to create epochs (30 - 40), <b>3 seconds each</b>, how can I do that ? since I have only 4 markers (considering there are 4 sections for the whole experiment for each participant) in my original data ?</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to thank you in advanced for your help. Look forward to your answer.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Ihshan</div></div>
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