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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">Dear FieldTrip community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">My name is Alison Harris and I have been using FieldTrip functions for time-frequency analysis for several years now as part of my EEG research. However, I recently attempted to re-analyze some old data using ft_freqanalysis in the
latest version of FieldTrip, and the output does not match my earlier results.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">I am trying to perform a frequency analysis for a motor execution task with alternating 8-s periods of finger-tapping and rest. The two conditions are preprocessed in EEGLAB and then separately imported to FieldTrip for frequency
analysis. The cfg and command are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> freqcfg = [];<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> freqcfg.method = 'mtmfft';<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> freqcfg.output = 'pow';<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> freqcfg.keeptrials = 'no';<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> freqcfg.keeptapers = 'no';<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> freqcfg.foi = [1:30];<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> freqcfg.taper = 'dpss';<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> freqcfg.tapsmofrq = 1;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> freqcfg.pad = 'nextpow2';<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>freqcfg.feedback = 'text';<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121"> [freqdata] = ft_freqanalysis(freqcfg,tldata);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">When I initially ran this analysis in 2019, the power spectra for action and rest conditions were largely overlapping. However, when I reran the analysis earlier this week (using the same data and cfg), the two power spectra were
offset, such that one power spectrum was noticeably lower on the y-axis than the other. For the two participants I examined, there was not a consistent pattern in terms of which power spectrum was offset: the power spectrum for the finger-tapping condition
was higher in one, whereas the resting power spectrum was lower in the other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">I then tested out my program with two earlier versions of FieldTrip that were available for download: fieldtrip-20191231 and fieldtrip-20191213. The change in the output of ft_freqanalysis seems to date to the 2019 version, as the
2018 output looked more similar to my existing results from a previous version of FieldTrip. I also tried specifying the “polyremoval” parameter, and redid the preprocessing in EEGLAB with and without detrending, but none of these changes seem to fundamentally
affect the offset of the power spectra.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Here is a link with data from two participants and plots of the power spectra from before and after 2019:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://claremontmckenna.box.com/s/gu796rvvsgipnwkm4cb13k5fhtdpu5f0__;!!HJOPV4FYYWzcc1jazlU!_AWV1fOSVX5tHme3OeHf6q76srFJ4TcvvLtenRnbF2VDh6fOQW4CMFSLoytvKYc-XQQjU18ERSfYG-nv1jeraFpKi4vjyHuaNupSNy8$" title="https://claremontmckenna.box.com/s/gu796rvvsgipnwkm4cb13k5fhtdpu5f0"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://claremontmckenna.box.com/s/gu796rvvsgipnwkm4cb13k5fhtdpu5f0</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Is there some difference in how the ft_freqanalysis command is called from 2019 onward that would explain this output?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Thank you for your help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Alison Harris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Alison Harris, PhD</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Ostby-Cook Associate Professor of Psychology & George R. Roberts Fellow</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Claremont McKenna College</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Claremont, CA 91711</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Phone: (909) 607-9397</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Email: <a href="mailto:aharris@cmc.edu" title="mailto:aharris@cmc.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">aharris@cmc.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Web: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/aharris__;!!HJOPV4FYYWzcc1jazlU!_AWV1fOSVX5tHme3OeHf6q76srFJ4TcvvLtenRnbF2VDh6fOQW4CMFSLoytvKYc-XQQjU18ERSfYG-nv1jeraFpKi4vjyHua46XzWYw$" title="https://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/aharris"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/aharris</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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