[Eeglablist] Creating new event codes based on previous combination of event codes in each trial

[Cédric Cannard]

Hi Renzo,

Bringing all events to time 0 does not make any sense as EEG is time series data, if you lose the event's time information, they become useless. I really don't understand why the toolbox would require you to do that.

There must be some mistake. Are you sure it is not just referring to the stimulus events regarding the event being at time 0? Normally, stimuli are at time 0, and responses are at X latency after stimulus. So when you epoch data in EEGLAB, you choose your epoch size (tags before and after stimulus) and it gives you all trials of same length, with the stimuli at time 0, and responses at for example +300 ms, + 450 ms, etc.

Cédric

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On Wednesday, September 23, 2020 5:18 PM, Renzo Lanfranco <renzo.lanfranco at gmail.com> wrote:

> [Thanks, Clement and Cédric, this is really helpful.]
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> Indeed, I need to create a new event code for each epoch (trial) at stimulus onset (time zero) that puts together the information from the previous stimulus-related event code and the response-related event code. I’m using a decoding toolbox that requires the data to be submitted that way (all events at time zero). Your code, Cédric, is very helpful. Checking Clement’s link to the Wiki, I found some information that might indirectly help too (https://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Chapter_03:_Event_Processing#Scripts_for_creating_new_events_based_on_context).
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> But you’re right, it’s better to keep all the different numbers. So I have a new question now: is there any way to move *all* the event codes in all the dataset's epochs to time zero? I know this may sound very messy, but I should be able to set up this decoding analysis this way too, without losing any event codes.
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> Thanks so much for your help!
>
> Renzo
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> [From:][Cédric Cannard](mailto:ccannard at protonmail.com)
> Sent: 23 September 2020 23:37
> To: [Clement Lee](mailto:cll008 at eng.ucsd.edu)
> Cc: [Renzo Lanfranco](mailto:renzo.lanfranco at gmail.com); [EEGLAB List](mailto:eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu)
> Subject: Re: [Eeglablist] Creating new event codes based on previous combination of event codes in each trial
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> Hi Renzo,
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> I agree with Clement, you normally want to keep the event names as they refer to the same type of stimulus/response across epochs, and it is easier to analyze event-related activity like this than if they all have different numbers.
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> So I wouldn't recommend it, but if you just want to just rename them in a linear growing manner (not sure how you want to rename them exactly), you can do so with something like this:
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> for iEvent = 1:size(EEG.event,2)
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> EEG.event(iEvent).type = num2str(iEvent);
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> end
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> Cédric
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> On Wednesday, September 23, 2020 1:43 PM, Clement Lee <cll008 at eng.ucsd.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi Renzo,
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>> What are you trying to accomplish by recoding the stimulus event to contain
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>> information about the response? Depending on your goal, there may be easier
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>> or more common pipelines to follow.
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>> Have you looked through the EEGLAB wiki's tutorial pages?
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>> https://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/I.Single_subject_data_processing_tutorial
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>> https://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/I.Single_subject_data_processing_tutorial.
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>> Particularly, Ch. 3 (https://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Chapter_03:_Event_Processing
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>> ) seems relevant in your case.
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>>
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>> Best,
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>> Clement Lee
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>> Applications Programmer
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>> Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
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>> Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego
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>> 858-822-7535
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>>
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>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:20 PM Renzo Lanfranco renzo.lanfranco at gmail.com
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>> wrote:
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>> > Hi everybody,
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>> > Thanks in advance. I was hoping someone could lend me a hand. I need to
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>> > perform the following analysis and don't know how:
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>> > This is for an EEG decoding analysis, but the EEG data (Biosemi 64) was
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>> > pre-processed in EEGLAB. Each epoch has two relevant event codes: the
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>> > stimulus class code (printed at time zero) and a response type code
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>> > (printed at the moment the participant pressed a key). Therefore, the
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>> > second event code can vary in time whereas the first event code doesn't.
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>> > What do I need to do?
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>> > Based on these event codes, I need to create new event codes for every
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>> > trial and print new codes at time zero that can comprise the previous event
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>> > codes. For example, if event code at time zero can be 1, 2 or 3, and
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>> > response code printed later can also be 4, 5 or 6., I now need to have
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>> > event codes at time zeroes that account for all those combinations, e.g.
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>> > 14, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26, 34, 35, and 36.
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>> > Any ideas how can I accomplish this? I don't have much experience working
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>> > with EEGLAB structures.
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>> > Thanks so much,
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>> > R
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