<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Dear FieldTrip list members,</span><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">There are several options for time-frequency baseline adjustment in ft_freqbaseline (e.g., absolute difference, relative change, dB). </div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My question is: when would one choose to use the ‘normchange’ option ([activity - baseline] / [activity + baseline]) over other options? <span class="">I’m having some trouble understanding in what situations (or with what sort of TF data) this approach would be preferred over the more common (and perhaps more intuitive?) decibel or relative percentage change baseline adjustments.</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I’ve only seen the normchange approach used in one recent article (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104894" class="">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104894</a>) and a recent FieldTrip tutorial (<a href="https://www.fieldtriptoolbox.org/tutorial/sleep/" class="">https://www.fieldtriptoolbox.org/tutorial/sleep/</a>). The <font color="#000000" class="">closest explanation of the normchange metric I can find is not in EEG work but rather spectral analysis in vegetation science (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_difference_vegetation_index#Rationale" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_difference_vegetation_index#Rationale</a>), and I can’t recall seeing this approach coded in other common EEG processing toolboxes.</font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you,</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jeremy</div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-size: 12px;">--<br class="">Jeremy Harper, PhD<br class=""><br class="">NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow<br class="">Department of Psychiatry | University of Minnesota<br class="">Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research</div><div style="font-size: 12px;"><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">ORCID: <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8994-6879" class="">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8994-6879</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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