Compare evoked responses for different conditions

In this example, an Epochs object for visual and auditory responses is created. Both conditions are then accessed by their respective names to create a sensor layout plot of the related evoked responses.

# Authors: Denis Engemann <denis.engemann@gmail.com>
#          Alexandre Gramfort <alexandre.gramfort@telecom-paristech.fr>

# License: BSD (3-clause)


import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import mne

from mne.viz import plot_evoked_topo
from mne.datasets import sample

print(__doc__)

data_path = sample.data_path()

Set parameters

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 = 1
tmin = -0.2
tmax = 0.5

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

#   Set up pick list: MEG + STI 014 - bad channels (modify to your needs)
include = []  # or stim channels ['STI 014']
# bad channels in raw.info['bads'] will be automatically excluded

#   Set up amplitude-peak rejection values for MEG channels
reject = dict(grad=4000e-13, mag=4e-12)

# pick MEG channels
picks = mne.pick_types(raw.info, meg=True, eeg=False, stim=False, eog=True,
                       include=include, exclude='bads')

# Create epochs including different events
event_id = {'audio/left': 1, 'audio/right': 2,
            'visual/left': 3, 'visual/right': 4}
epochs = mne.Epochs(raw, events, event_id, tmin, tmax,
                    picks=picks, baseline=(None, 0), reject=reject)

# Generate list of evoked objects from conditions names
evokeds = [epochs[name].average() for name in ('left', 'right')]

Out:

Opening raw data file /home/ubuntu/mne_data/MNE-sample-data/MEG/sample/sample_audvis_filt-0-40_raw.fif...
    Read a total of 4 projection items:
        PCA-v1 (1 x 102)  idle
        PCA-v2 (1 x 102)  idle
        PCA-v3 (1 x 102)  idle
        Average EEG reference (1 x 60)  idle
    Range : 6450 ... 48149 =     42.956 ...   320.665 secs
Ready.
Current compensation grade : 0
288 matching events found
Created an SSP operator (subspace dimension = 3)
4 projection items activated
    Rejecting  epoch based on MAG : [u'MEG 1711']
    Rejecting  epoch based on MAG : [u'MEG 1711']

Show topography for two different conditions

colors = 'yellow', 'green'
title = 'MNE sample data - left vs right (A/V combined)'

plot_evoked_topo(evokeds, color=colors, title=title)

plt.show()
../../_images/sphx_glr_plot_topo_compare_conditions_001.png

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 2.945 seconds)

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