[Eeglablist] Edge artifacts with newtimef (problem with baseline)?

[Arnaud Delorme]

Dear Ana,

at the lowest frequency, your moving window size is 824 ms, so if your epoch starts at -1500 ms, the center of the first window is located at -1088 ms. Because we only get spectral estimates at the center of windows, this is why you "loose" data on the edge. 

And this is what we generally mean by "border" effect (although it can also be what Makoto was talking about). I have not heard of edge artifacts. However, you must remember that the window you use at the lowest frequency include a total of 824 ms of data although it is tapered (multiplied) by a gaussian (in the case of Morlet wavelets) to avoid window edge effects.

Best,

Arno

On 21 Mar 2013, at 00:11, Ana Navarro Cebrian wrote:

> Dear eeglab users,
> I'm using newtimef to calculate the ERSP. My epochs are -1500 to 2000 ms long, and I'm using the time from -1500 to 0 as a baseline. 
> I've been told that a baseline from -500 to -200 ms would be more optimal to avoid edge-artifacts, since my baseline starts at the same point that the beginning of my epoch (-1500ms). 
> 
> I don't observe any edge effects in my data (with the -1500 to 0 ms as a baseline), but I don't have other way to verify this and I'd like to make sure of it. Also,  I believe that this is related to the fact that my ERSP plots only show from around -1088ms to 1586ms (instead of -1500 to 2000), but I would like to understand this better.
> Could anybody explain why I shouldn't worry about edge artifacts when using newtimef to calculate the ERSPs?
> Many thanks,
> Ana 
>  
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