tfanalysis - NaN

Christian Hesse c.hesse at FCDONDERS.RU.NL
Mon Jun 25 23:30:48 CEST 2007


Hi Virginie,

>> If the NaNs occur also at other points in the TFR then there may
>> be something else going on ... is it the case that the NaNs are
>> confined to the edges (edge regions) of your TFR?
>
> The entire matrices (cfg.powspctrm) return NaN whether for
> (i)1.1 secs or 2.4 secs epochs
> (ii) narrow (25-50) or wide (2-50) bandwidth
> (iii) short or large cfg. toi (then would expect U shape)
>

That's not good! Does the call to FREQANALYSIS produce any
(potentially useful) warnings?

Regards,
Christian



>>>>
>>>> Hi Virginie,
>>>>
>>>> the function freqanalysis will return NaNs when a time frequency
>>>> tile extends beyond a corresponding data segment. One would
>>>> usually expect a "U" shaped padding of NaNs at the boundaries of
>>>> any TFR which has longer time windows for lower frequencies.
>>>> From the cfg options you specify below I can see that you have a
>>>> data segment of 1.1 seconds length and the moving windows
>>>> cfg.t_tfimwin are quite long at the low ffrequencies, e.g., 1 Hz
>>>> = 4 s, 6 Hz  = 0.6666 s. Hence the NaNs seem perfectly "normal"
>>>> in this case. The only way to avoid NaN in the time window of
>>>> interest (using this type of time-frequency tiling) is to make
>>>> your epochs longer.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 21 Jun 2007, at 20:44, Virginie van Wassenhove wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello again.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am finding NaN whatever method I use (multitaper and wavelet
>>>>> analysis), yet using a different analysis tool with similar
>>>>> parameters I obtain clean results.
>>>>> epoch length    = 1.1 s
>>>>> baseline length = 0.3 s
>>>>> sampling rate   = 500Hz
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried several suggestions listed in the previous message list
>>>>> for a similar problem, but none seem to provide reasonable
>>>>> results (aka always NaN).
>>>>> Also tried with different subjects, no particular error
>>>>> otherwise. I am sending a sample script in case someone has a
>>>>> suggestion on this...
>>>>> Thanks for your help once more!
>>>>>
>>>>> Virginie
>>>>>
>>>>> %% ================================================
>>>>> % TF analysis - MULTITAPER
>>>>> cfg             = [];
>>>>> cfg.method      = 'mtmconvol';
>>>>> cfg.taper       = 'hanning';
>>>>> cfg.output      = 'powandcsd';
>>>>> %cfg.channel    = 'all';
>>>>> cfg.channel     = 'E75';
>>>>>
>>>>> %win_length     = 0.128;
>>>>> %win_n  = floor(2.*(1.1./win_length)-1);
>>>>>
>>>>> cfg.foi = 1:5:45;
>>>>> %cfg.t_ftimwin = ones(1,win_n).*win_length;
>>>>> cfg.t_ftimwin   = 4./cfg.foi;
>>>>> %cfg.toi        = -0.3:win_length/2:0.8;
>>>>> cfg.toi         = -0.3:0.05:0.8;
>>>>>
>>>>> % cfg.pad       = 'maxperlen';
>>>>> % cfg.keeptrials = 'no';
>>>>> % cfg.keeptapers ='no';
>>>>> s08_ill_mult = freqanalysis(cfg,s08_ill);
>>>>>
>>>>> %% ========================
>>>>> % plot freq data
>>>>> cfg             = [];
>>>>> cfg.baseline    = [-0.3 0];
>>>>> cfg.layout      = egilay;
>>>>> cfg.zlim        = [-0.00001 0.000001];          % a comparer
>>>>> entre participants
>>>>> % warning off                 % NaN
>>>>> clf
>>>>> %multiplotTFR(cfg,s08_ill_mult);
>>>>> singleplotTFR(cfg,s08_ill_mult);
>>>>>
>>>>> %% ================================================
>>>>> % TF analysis - wavelet
>>>>> cfg             = [];
>>>>> cfg.method      = 'wltconvol';
>>>>> cfg.width               = 4;
>>>>> cfg.output       = 'pow';
>>>>> cfg.foi                 = 1:2:30;
>>>>> cfg.toi                 = -0.3:0.05:0.8;
>>>>> s14_ill_wvlt    = freqanalysis(cfg, s14_ill);
>>>>> %% ========================
>>>>> cfg = [];
>>>>> cfg.baseline    = [-0.3 0];
>>>>> cfg.zlim        = [-1 1];
>>>>> cfg.showlabels = 'yes';
>>>>> cfg.layout      = egilay;
>>>>> clf
>>>>> multiplotTFR(cfg, s14_ill_wvlt)
>>>>>
>>>>> %% ================================================
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Virginie van Wassenhove, PhD
>>>>>
>>>>> :::::::::::: contact info  :::::::::::::
>>>>> Caltech - Division of Biology
>>>>> 1200 E. California Blvd M/C 139-74
>>>>> Pasadena CA 91125 USA
>>>>> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>>>>> <<mailto:vvw at caltech.edu>mailto:vvw at caltech.edu><mailto:vvw at caltec
>>>>> h.edu>vvw at caltech.edu
>>>>> <<mailto:Virginie.van.Wassenhove at gmail.com>mailto:Virginie.van.Was
>>>>> senhove at gmail.com><mailto:Virginie.van.Wassenhove at gmail.com>Virgin
>>>>> ie.van.Wassenhove at gmail.com
>>>>> W: 626.395.8959
>>>>> <<http://www.its.caltech.edu/~vvw>http://www.its.caltech.edu/
>>>>> ~vvw>http://www.its.caltech.edu/~vvw
>>>>>
>>>>> :::::::::::::::::: extras ::::::::::::::::::::
>>>>> <<http://www.kiva.org>http://www.kiva.org>http://www.kiva.org
>>>>> <http://www.thehungersite.com>http://www.thehungersite.com/
>>>>> <http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBS1539>http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBS1539
>>>>> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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>>>>
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>>>> ---
>>>> Christian Hesse, PhD, MIEEE
>>>>
>>>> F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
>>>> P.O. Box 9101
>>>> NL-6500 HB Nijmegen
>>>> The Netherlands
>>>>
>>>> Tel.: +31 (0)24 36 68293
>>>> Fax: +31 (0)24 36 10989
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Virginie van Wassenhove, PhD
>>>
>>> :::::::::::: contact info  :::::::::::::
>>> Caltech - Division of Biology
>>> 1200 E. California Blvd M/C 139-74
>>> Pasadena CA 91125 USA
>>> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>>> <mailto:vvw at caltech.edu>vvw at caltech.edu
>>> <mailto:Virginie.van.Wassenhove at gmail.com>Virginie.van.Wassenhove at gm
>>> ail.com
>>> W: 626.395.8959
>>> <http://www.its.caltech.edu/~vvw>http://www.its.caltech.edu/~vvw
>>>
>>> :::::::::::::::::: extras ::::::::::::::::::::
>>> <http://www.kiva.org>http://www.kiva.org
>>> http://www.thehungersite.com/
>>> <http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBS1539>http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBS1539
>>> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------
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>>> users of the FieldTrip  toolbox, to share experiences and to
>>> discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also <http://
>>> listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html>http://
>>> listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and <http://www.ru.nl/
>>> fcdonders/fieldtrip>http://www.ru.nl/fcdonders/fieldtrip.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -
>> Christian Hesse, PhD, MIEEE
>>
>> F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
>> P.O. Box 9101
>> NL-6500 HB Nijmegen
>> The Netherlands
>>
>> Tel.: +31 (0)24 36 68293
>> Fax: +31 (0)24 36 10989
>>
>> Email: <mailto:c.hesse at fcdonders.ru.nl>c.hesse at fcdonders.ru.nl
>> Web: <http://www.fcdonders.ru.nl>www.fcdonders.ru.nl
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users
>> of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new
>> ideas for MEG and EEG analysis.
>>
>> http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html
>>
>> http://www.ru.nl/fcdonders/fieldtrip/
>
> Virginie van Wassenhove, PhD
>
> :::::::::::: contact info  :::::::::::::
> Caltech - Division of Biology
> 1200 E. California Blvd M/C 139-74
> Pasadena CA 91125 USA
> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> vvw at caltech.edu
> Virginie.van.Wassenhove at gmail.com
> W: 626.395.8959
> http://www.its.caltech.edu/~vvw
>
> :::::::::::::::::: extras ::::::::::::::::::::
> http://www.kiva.org
> http://www.thehungersite.com/
> http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBS1539
> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>
> ----------------------------------
> The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users
> of the FieldTrip  toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new
> ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/
> archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/fcdonders/fieldtrip.
>

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Christian Hesse, PhD, MIEEE

F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
P.O. Box 9101
NL-6500 HB Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 (0)24 36 68293
Fax: +31 (0)24 36 10989

Email: c.hesse at fcdonders.ru.nl
Web: www.fcdonders.ru.nl
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