[Eeglablist] extracting single-trial values

[Stephen Politzer-Ahles]

Hello Bastien,

I don't know about built-in functions for this, but if there isn't
one, extracting them with MATLAB is fairly straightforward anyway. For
each participant you can run something like this:

baseline = 200; % length of pre-stimulus baseline in ms, assuming 1000
Hz sampling rate
window = [300 500]; % let's say you want to extract the mean from 300-500 ms
values = EEG.data(:, (window(1)+baseline+1):(window(2)+baseline+1),
:); % pull out the time window
values = squeeze( mean( values, 2 ) ); % average over samples

Then you have a vector consisting of the mean amplitudes for each trial.

Best,
Steve


Stephen Politzer-Ahles
New York University, Abu Dhabi
Neuroscience of Language Lab
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/politzer-ahles/


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Bastien Boutonnet <bastien.b1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It will be my first attempt to look at ERPs in terms of single-trials. In
> the first instance I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion regarding the
> following:
>
> I would like to extract a time point (or rather a mean of close time points)
> for each trial, which I wish to correlate/regress with a continuous
> variable. I tried to look if there was a function already doing that kind of
> thing but I was out of luck. 1. Was my search badly done and there IS in
> fact a function? 2. My search was done correctly, there is no ready-made
> function and I will have to “manually” extract the information. If so, what
> could I do? Has anyone done something slightly similar?
>
> Thanks in advance for your time.
>
> Bastien
>
> —
> Bastien Boutonnet, Ph. D.
> Department of Psychology
> University of Wisconsin, Madison
> bastienboutonnet.com
>
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