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%matplotlib inline

Reading epochs from a raw FIF file

This script shows how to read the epochs from a raw file given a list of events. For illustration, we compute the evoked responses for both MEG and EEG data by averaging all the epochs.


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# Authors: Alexandre Gramfort <alexandre.gramfort@telecom-paristech.fr>
#          Matti Hamalainen <msh@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
#
# License: BSD (3-clause)

import mne
from mne import io
from mne.datasets import sample

print(__doc__)

data_path = sample.data_path()

Set parameters


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raw_fname = data_path + '/MEG/sample/sample_audvis_filt-0-40_raw.fif'
event_fname = data_path + '/MEG/sample/sample_audvis_filt-0-40_raw-eve.fif'
event_id, tmin, tmax = 1, -0.2, 0.5

# Setup for reading the raw data
raw = io.read_raw_fif(raw_fname)
events = mne.read_events(event_fname)

# Set up pick list: EEG + MEG - bad channels (modify to your needs)
raw.info['bads'] += ['MEG 2443', 'EEG 053']  # bads + 2 more
picks = mne.pick_types(raw.info, meg=True, eeg=False, stim=True, eog=True,
                       exclude='bads')

# Read epochs
epochs = mne.Epochs(raw, events, event_id, tmin, tmax, proj=True,
                    picks=picks, baseline=(None, 0), preload=True,
                    reject=dict(grad=4000e-13, mag=4e-12, eog=150e-6))

evoked = epochs.average()  # average epochs to get the evoked response

Show result


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evoked.plot()