INTRO(U"EEG means electro-encephalography: brain potentials recorded via e.g. 32 or 64 electrodes on the scalp. "
"In Praat, an EEG object looks like a combination of a Sound object with e.g. 32 or 64 channels "
"and a TextGrid object that marks the events.")
@@ -86,6 +86,27 @@ NORMAL (U"Once you have an ERPTier, you can extract each of the 150 ERPs from it
NORMAL(U"Once you have an ERP object, you can look into it with ##View & Edit#. "
"If you want to see in the ERP window the scalp distribution at the time of the cursor, or the average scalp distribution in the selected time stretch, "
"you have to switch on ##Show selection viewer# in the #Preferences window (available from the #File menu).")
ENTRY(U"See also")
LIST_ITEM(U"\\bu @@Independent Component Analysis on EEG@")
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MAN_BEGIN(U"Independent Component Analysis on EEG",U"ppgb",20180329)
INTRO(U"Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is often used to improve @EEG signals. "
"See @@blind source separation@ for the algorithm.")
ENTRY(U"1. Selecting your channels")
NORMAL(U"You typically will not want to do ICA on all 80 channels of your signal, "
"some of which may not even be EEG channels. To create a smaller EEG with e.g. only the 64 scalp channels, "
"use ##EEG: Extract channels...#. From here on we will assume that your reduced EEG has 64 channels.")
ENTRY(U"2. How to get a MixingMatrix")
NORMAL(U"Once you have your reduced EEG, you can start to do ICA on it. "
"This starts by creating a @MixingMatrix: select your EEG object and choose ##To MixingMatrix...#. "
"The resulting MixingMatrix has one row for each of your 64 EEG channels, and columns called \"ic1\" through \"ic64\".")
ENTRY(U"3. How to see the independent components")
NORMAL(U"Select you EEG and your MixingMatrix together and choose ##Unmix#. "
"The resulting ICA-EEG will have 64 channels called \"ic1\" through \"ic64\".")
ENTRY(U"4. Just checking back")
NORMAL(U"If you select your ICA-EEG together with your MixingMatrix choose ##Mix#, "
"the resulting EEG should be very similar to your original 64-channel EEG.")