[Eeglablist] Electrodes Values

[Andreas Widmann]

Dear Arno,

your notion of "small normalization difference" made me curious where this definition of GFP might originate. Where is it defined with "N - 1 normalization"? Also in ERPLAB GFP appears to be implemented according to this definition.

However, in the original paper by Lehmann and Skrandies (1980) it is either defined as "root of the mean of the squared potential differences between all possible electrode pairs" (formula 1A)
gfp = sqrt(1 / (2 * 32) * sum(sum((repmat(tmp(:, 1), [1 32]) - repmat(tmp(:, 1), [1 32])') .^ 2)))
(similar to implementation in eeg_gfp.m) or as root mean squared voltage of the average referenced data (formula 1B), with gfp_1A = gfp_1B * sqrt(nChans).

Also some other papers which explicitly define the term use the latter definition (e.g., Brandeis et al., 1992; Roth et al. 1995; Murray et al., 2008; Koenig et al., 2009), that is, normalize by N not N - 1. Shouldn't we possibly better use
gfp = std(tmp, 1) % GFP normalized by N
to compute GFP?

What is the rationale behind N - 1 normalization? Any ideas?
Thank you! Best,
Andreas

Am 18.05.2013 um 19:21 schrieb Arnaud Delorme <arno at ucsd.edu>:

> Dear Kleber,
> 
> one way to get a global measure proportional to microvolt is to use the Global Field Power (GFP).
> 
> http://sccn.ucsd.edu/pipermail/eeglablist/2008/002132.html
> 
> The root mean square (RMS) value is also sometimes used.
> The root mean square value on average reference data is similar to the GFP (with small normalization difference).
> 
> tmp = rand(32,10); % simulated data 32 channels 10 points
> std(tmp) % GFP
> sqrt(mean(tmp.^2)) % RMS
> sqrt(sum((tmp-repmat(mean(tmp), [size(tmp,1) 1])).^2)/(size(tmp,1)-1)) % RMS on average reference with n-1 normalization (same as GFP)
> 
> I am not sure RMS on a common reference should be used. Any other comments on this appreciated.
> Thanks,
> 
> Arno
> 
> On 16 May 2013, at 15:15, Kleber de Aguiar wrote:
> 
>> Hello Everyone in this list,
>> 
>> I would like to know if anyone of you can answer me a doubt about de reading
>> of the values of a group of electrodes in a EEG exam, as I"ll explain bellow:
>> 
>> 
>> 1- Spliting the EEG recording in slots of time, that I will call them as
>> "samples";
>> 
>> 2- Assuming that "n" electrodes were used in this EEG Recording;
>> 
>> 3 - In every "sample" of the recording, there will have "n" electrodes values
>> corresponding for each electrodes;
>> 
>> MY QUESTIONS:
>> 
>> * How can I sum this electrodes values of the sample in a single value that
>> represents  the total of microvolts oh that "sample"?
>> 
>> * How can I describe the values of "y" samples in a single value that
>> represents these "y" sample values?
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Kleber, a fresh researcher in this field.
>> 
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