[Mne_analysis] Baseline calculation

dgw dgwakeman at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 16:41:34 EDT 2012
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I agree, something along those lines is probably easiest.

For future experiments, there are better options for designing your 
triggers, which will make these sorts of calculations simpler.

D

Stephen Politzer-Ahles wrote:
> Reid,
> 
> I see. I imagine it would be possible to do baseline-correction in 
> MATLAB since you have a list of the latencies of each trigger (I 
> personally don't have experience working with the MNE MATLAB toolbox, 
> but once you've gotten the data into MATLAB then I imagine doing the 
> baseline-correction should be straightforward if you're familiar with 
> MATLAB itself: just iterating through each trial, selecting the proper 
> latency from that trial from your list, and calculating and applying a 
> baseline-correction based on the specific latency for that trial, then 
> saving the data and exporting back out to .fif). I'm not aware of a way 
> to do this with MNE functions, although someone else on the list might be.
> 
> Best,
> Steve
> 
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Vancelette, Reid Vincent 
> <RVANCELETTE at partners.org <mailto:RVANCELETTE at partners.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Steven and everyone else,____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     We used auditory presentation for our study. This means that the
>     latencies vary depending on the word and the sentence. We
>     unfortunately didn’t normalize all of the lengths of all the
>     segments so that the matched. Is there any way to go around this
>     problem? I know the lengths of each of the segments in all of the
>     sentences: this is how we initially created the triggers for our
>     experiment. ____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     -Reid____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     *From:* Stephen Politzer-Ahles [mailto:politzerahless at gmail.com
>     <mailto:politzerahless at gmail.com>]
>     *Sent:* Friday, March 30, 2012 5:19 AM
>     *To:* Vancelette, Reid Vincent
>     *Cc:* mne_analysis at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>     <mailto:mne_analysis at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Mne_analysis] Baseline calculation____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     Hi Vancelette,
> 
>     Is the time between the beginning of a sentence and a given trigger
>     always the same across items? (That should be the case if the number
>     of words is always the same and you used serial visual presentation;
>     if the position of a given trigger varies across items and/or you
>     used auditory presentation, though, then the latencies probably
>     vary.) If this latency is always the same then you can just add that
>     latency to what the baseline interval would be for each trigger. For
>     instance, if the baseline for the first trigger were -100 to 0, and
>     the second trigger always appeared 800 ms after the first, then the
>     baseline for the second could be -900 to -800.
> 
>     Best,
>     Steve____
> 
>     On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Vancelette, Reid Vincent
>     <RVANCELETTE at partners.org <mailto:RVANCELETTE at partners.org>> wrote:____
> 
>     Hi all,____
> 
>      ____
> 
>     I am currently in the process of performing preprocessing on my
>     MEG/EEG data and am trying to correctly calculate a baseline. I am
>     working with whole sentences that have several triggers within each
>     sentence to mark particular areas of interest (for example: the
>     noun, the verb). The current way that we calculate the baseline is
>     from 100 ms before each of the triggers. Is there any way that I can
>     calculate the baseline from the first trigger of each of the
>     sentences (which happens to correspond to the beginning of the
>     sentence) and apply that to each of the triggers within that
>     particular sentence instead of having to calculate it 100 ms before
>     each of the triggers? I am asking this because as of right now we
>     are basically forced to calculate the baseline while the subject is
>     hearing the sentences, which can bias the data. ____
> 
>      ____
> 
>     Thanks in advance,____
> 
>      ____
> 
>     Reid____
> 
>      ____
> 
>     Reid Vancelette____
> 
>     Research Assistant to____
> 
>     Dr. David Caplan M.D., Ph.D.____
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