Unwanted triggers during ABR measurement
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:19 am
Dear sir, madam,
recently we have acquired the ABR cord and input and have been able to record decent ABRs using a stimulus with fixed intensity and a single triggercode (sent synchronously with the click onset). We are now also able to present clicks with different amplitudes and different triggercodes. However, somehow we get additional triggers when checking marker quantities using Brain Vision Analyzer (BVA). The additional trigger codes (3 in screenshot) can often be found at the same time as a marker we actually want (10 or 11) or at the down slope a coupe of samples later (see attached picture). We always send a 0 after a stimulus trigger (e.g. 10, integer) and have a couple of milliseconds in between the 0 trigger and the next stimulus trigger. Using our setup (see below), trigger lines 9-16 are always high (rainbow colors in ActiABR) and stimulus triggers show up in triggerlines 1-8 (should all 16 trigger lines be 0 for triggers to work properly?).
I am not sure what we are doing wrong and how to solve the extra triggers. The extra triggers are problematic because they can overlap with other trigger codes we use. I hope you can help us out.
Kind regards,
Nathan
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Screenshot
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Some more information on our setup:
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Setup:
PC running Windows, Eprime 3.
PST Chronos box with IO expander for synchronization of sound onsets and trigger onset (works via USB, https://pstnet.com/products/chronos/).
BioSemi AD box and battery box with ABR Cord and ABR input (speedmode 9).
ActiABR for recording.
Brain Vision Analyzer for offline dataprocessing.
TDH-39 headphones connected to PST Chronos audio out.
Stimuli:
100 microsecond clicks (square wave) followed by 10 ms silence.
Interstimulus interval 27 ms, 37 Hz presentation rate.
recently we have acquired the ABR cord and input and have been able to record decent ABRs using a stimulus with fixed intensity and a single triggercode (sent synchronously with the click onset). We are now also able to present clicks with different amplitudes and different triggercodes. However, somehow we get additional triggers when checking marker quantities using Brain Vision Analyzer (BVA). The additional trigger codes (3 in screenshot) can often be found at the same time as a marker we actually want (10 or 11) or at the down slope a coupe of samples later (see attached picture). We always send a 0 after a stimulus trigger (e.g. 10, integer) and have a couple of milliseconds in between the 0 trigger and the next stimulus trigger. Using our setup (see below), trigger lines 9-16 are always high (rainbow colors in ActiABR) and stimulus triggers show up in triggerlines 1-8 (should all 16 trigger lines be 0 for triggers to work properly?).
I am not sure what we are doing wrong and how to solve the extra triggers. The extra triggers are problematic because they can overlap with other trigger codes we use. I hope you can help us out.
Kind regards,
Nathan
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Screenshot
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Some more information on our setup:
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Setup:
PC running Windows, Eprime 3.
PST Chronos box with IO expander for synchronization of sound onsets and trigger onset (works via USB, https://pstnet.com/products/chronos/).
BioSemi AD box and battery box with ABR Cord and ABR input (speedmode 9).
ActiABR for recording.
Brain Vision Analyzer for offline dataprocessing.
TDH-39 headphones connected to PST Chronos audio out.
Stimuli:
100 microsecond clicks (square wave) followed by 10 ms silence.
Interstimulus interval 27 ms, 37 Hz presentation rate.