mne.channels.read_montage

mne.channels.read_montage(kind, ch_names=None, path=None, unit=’m’, transform=False)[source]

Read a generic (built-in) montage.

Individualized (digitized) electrode positions should be read in using read_dig_montage().

In most cases, you should only need the kind parameter to load one of the built-in montages (see Notes).

Parameters:

kind : str

The name of the montage file without the file extension (e.g. kind=’easycap-M10’ for ‘easycap-M10.txt’). Files with extensions ‘.elc’, ‘.txt’, ‘.csd’, ‘.elp’, ‘.hpts’, ‘.sfp’ or ‘.loc’ (‘.locs’ and ‘.eloc’) are supported.

ch_names : list of str | None

If not all electrodes defined in the montage are present in the EEG data, use this parameter to select subset of electrode positions to load. If None (default), all defined electrode positions are returned.

Note

ch_names are compared to channel names in the montage file after converting them both to upper case. If a match is found, the letter case in the original ch_names is used in the returned montage.

path : str | None

The path of the folder containing the montage file. Defaults to the mne/channels/data/montages folder in your mne-python installation.

unit : ‘m’ | ‘cm’ | ‘mm’

Unit of the input file. If not ‘m’ (default), coordinates will be rescaled to ‘m’.

transform : bool

If True, points will be transformed to Neuromag space. The fidicuals, ‘nasion’, ‘lpa’, ‘rpa’ must be specified in the montage file. Useful for points captured using Polhemus FastSCAN. Default is False.
Returns:

montage : instance of Montage

The montage.

See also

DigMontage, Montage, read_dig_montage

Notes

Built-in montages are not scaled or transformed by default.

Montages can contain fiducial points in addition to electrode locations, e.g. biosemi64 contains 67 total channels.

The valid kind arguments are:

Kind description
standard_1005 Electrodes are named and positioned according to the international 10-05 system.
standard_1020 Electrodes are named and positioned according to the international 10-20 system.
standard_alphabetic Electrodes are named with LETTER-NUMBER combinations (A1, B2, F4, etc.)
standard_postfixed Electrodes are named according to the international 10-20 system using postfixes for intermediate positions.
standard_prefixed Electrodes are named according to the international 10-20 system using prefixes for intermediate positions.
standard_primed Electrodes are named according to the international 10-20 system using prime marks (‘ and ”) for intermediate positions.
biosemi16 BioSemi cap with 16 electrodes
biosemi32 BioSemi cap with 32 electrodes
biosemi64 BioSemi cap with 64 electrodes
biosemi128 BioSemi cap with 128 electrodes
biosemi160 BioSemi cap with 160 electrodes
biosemi256 BioSemi cap with 256 electrodes
easycap-M10 Brainproducts EasyCap with electrodes named according to the 10-05 system
easycap-M1 Brainproduct EasyCap with numbered electrodes
EGI_256 Geodesic Sensor Net with 256 channels
GSN-HydroCel-32 HydroCel Geodesic Sensor Net with 32 electrodes
GSN-HydroCel-64_1.0 HydroCel Geodesic Sensor Net with 64 electrodes
GSN-HydroCel-65_1.0 HydroCel Geodesic Sensor Net with 64 electrodes + Cz
GSN-HydroCel-128 HydroCel Geodesic Sensor Net with 128 electrodes
GSN-HydroCel-129 HydroCel Geodesic Sensor Net with 128 electrodes + Cz
GSN-HydroCel-256 HydroCel Geodesic Sensor Net with 256 electrodes
GSN-HydroCel-257 HydroCel Geodesic Sensor Net with 256 electrodes + Cz

New in version 0.9.0.

Examples using mne.channels.read_montage