An Artifact Filter for Event-Related Potentials.
Abstract:
Scalp-surface recordings of event-related potentials ERPs are frequently contaminated by electrical artifacts. We describe a Fortran 77 computer program that examines ERP data for several types of electrical artifacts eyeblinks, voltages spikes, large local voltages, large overall voltages, amplifier saturation effects, and dead-amplifier effects. Where possible, the program compensates the ERP data for electrooculogram artifacts by time-domain cross-regression procedures. Keywords Performance assessment, Event-related potentials, Evoked potentials, Psychophysiology, ERP, Artifact detection, EEG, EOG, Eyeblinks, Voltage spikes, Absolute voltages, Root-mean- square voltages, RMS, Amplifier clipping, Saturation, Artifacts, Biomedical instrumentation. JG