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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear FieldTrip users,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am trying to define trials from a continuous EEG data set that was exported from BESA to .edf format, but I’m having trouble reading the events with FieldTrip. The events are located in a separate channel that was appended to the EEG data.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After running ft_definetrial with cfg.trialdef.eventtype set to ‘?’ (in order to see the event types and event values in the data), I received the following output:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the following events were found in the datafile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>event type: 'trial' with event values: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>no trials have been defined yet, see FT_DEFINETRIAL for further help<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>found 720 events<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>created 0 trials<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the call to "ft_definetrial" took 1 seconds<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It seems that ft_definetrial is not reading any events except for trials, which should not be present in the data. As a comparison, I opened the data set with eeglab, which did read the events properly, leading me to believe that the event information is in fact part of the file. How can I get ft_definetrial to correctly read the events?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance for your help.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emilio<span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>