[Eeglablist] How to disentangle two events?

[James Desjardins]

Hi Florian,

The following code should be close to what you are looking for:

%make sure that the events are stored chronologically...
EEG=eeg_checkset(EEG,'eventconsistency');

%loop through the events looking for events that are within a "point_range" of each other...
%store the indexes of the "too close" events in the "reject_index" array...
point_range=50;
reject_index=[];
j=0;
for i=1:length(EEG.event)-1;
    if EEG.event(i+1).latency-EEG.event(i).latency<point_range;
        j=j+1;
        reject_index(j)=i+1;
    end
end

%purge the "too close" events...
EEG.event(reject_indexes)=[];


The way that this is currently written ignores the event type an will always purge the second event of two "too close" events... even if the purge event is a "boundary" event. If you also need to place contingencies on the event type I could expand it out for you.


James Desjardins, MA
Electrophysiology Technologist
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Subject: [Eeglablist] How to disentangle two events?

Dear EEGLAB experts,

does anyone know a way/script with which I can delete one event if it is too close to another event (so like if “event 1” <10ms away from “event 2” then erase)?

In my experiment, I use photodiodes to send triggers. If one is active alone, this is one event (“1”/”3”), if two are active, it should be another(“2”). When both diodes are activates however, occationally I get first the one and then the other event, as if my monitor ist too slow to present light for both triggers at the same time.

In the EEG-data, this results in the two events beeing at the (almost) exact same time (i.e. “1”and”2”) so that I have to erase the one event by hand from the data. As this happens around 100 times per experiment I was wondering if this could be done automatically.

I am sorry if this is a trivial question for advanced users, I have only started using EEGlab recently.

Thank you so much for your help!

Florian

University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Research Group Neuropsychology & Interventional Neuropsychiatry
Calwerstraße 14, 72071 Tübingen, Germany
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