[FieldTrip] Single trial baseline correction issues

[Jennifer Tellett]

Hi Agatha,

Thanks for the paper, I had seen that previously and was planning on looking at full epoch single trial baseline correction. However, I am not clear on how such a technique would be implemented using FieldTrip given the difficulties I was having regarding maintaining the single trial information in the structure of the output from ft_freqbaseline. Is this kind of thing possible in FieldTrip or will it require custom coding?

Thanks,
Jenny
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From: Agatha Lenartowicz [alenarto at g.ucla.edu]
Sent: 21 July 2015 16:07
To: Tellett Jennifer
Cc: fieldtrip at science.ru.nl
Subject: Re: [FieldTrip] Single trial baseline correction issues

Jennifer. There's an interesting paper out by Arno Delorme on this topic. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994498

Take a look. Agatha On Jul 21, 2015 7:28 AM, Jennifer Tellett <lpxjrt at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am relatively new to FieldTrip. I am intending on correlating frontal theta with occipital alpha at single electrode sites on a trial by trial basis for each subject, and as such I was hoping to apply baseline correction at the single trial level as opposed to to the grand average. However, in order to justify the use of the electrode sites, I first created a grand average and did the baseline correction on this. I wanted to check what differences it might make to the grand average if I instead baseline correct each trial, and then compute the grand average instead. However, when I implement ft_freqbaseline, although the dimord still suggests the structure is rpt_chan_freq_time, I no longer have the cumtapcnt variable and if I try to use cfg.avgoverrpts it tells me there are no repeats (trials). This means that (as far as I can see!) I seem to have lost the single trial information in conducting the baseline correction. In addition, because the dimord structure has 'rpt', it won't allow me to use ft_freqgrandaverage on the resulting data.
>
> What I'd ideally like is to know what is the best way of implementing baseline correction on a trial-by-trial basis, so that I retain the trial-by-trial information? Can I then create a grand average from these to check whether my justification for electrode choice still stands if baseline correction has been done per trial?
>
> Below are the settings I have used for each subject for frequency analysis and baseline correction, let me know if you need any more information.
>
>     % establish parameters for frquency analysis
>     cfg = [];
>     cfg.output = 'pow';         % chooses what output you want
>     cfg.channel={'all';'-LIO';'-LHE';'-RHE'};           % chooses which channels to output; all except EOG
>     cfg.method = 'mtmconvol';   % chooses type of frequency analysis to use
>     cfg.taper='hanning';        % chooses type of tapering to apply
>     cfg.foi=2.5:2.5:40;           % chooses frequencies of interest, currently looking between 2.5 and 40 Hz in steps of 2.5
>     cfg.t_ftimwin= ones(length(cfg.foi),1)*0.5;     % chooses time window of 500ms
>     cfg.toi= -0.75:0.1:1.65;         % chooses times of interest, currently looking between -0.75 pre stimulus  to 1.65s post-stimulus in steps of 0.1s
>     cfg.keeptrials='yes';       % chooses whether to give average across trials or to keep individual trial values
>
>
>
>     %implement the frequency analysis
>     TFRall = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, data);
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>
>
>     %baseline correct
>     bcfg.baseline = [-0.75 -0.5];
>     bcfg.baselinetype = 'db';
>     TFRall = ft_freqbaseline(bcfg, TFRall);
>
> I'd really appreciate any ideas on this,
> Jenny
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