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Bug 2525 - ft_read_event only considers event types "input" in eyelink ascii data

Status NEW
Reported 2014-04-04 15:10:00 +0200
Modified 2016-07-21 09:56:28 +0200
Product: FieldTrip
Component: fileio
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC
Operating System: Linux
Importance: P5 normal
Assigned to: Diego Lozano Soldevilla
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See also: http://bugzilla.fcdonders.nl/show_bug.cgi?id=2413http://bugzilla.fieldtriptoolbox.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2998http://bugzilla.fieldtriptoolbox.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3050

Diego Lozano Soldevilla - 2014-04-04 15:10:11 +0200

ft_read_event only considers EYELINK event types named "INPUT" but it generates much more as LEFT,RIGHT,FIXATION,SACCADE,BLINK,MESSAGE,BUTTON. At the donders, most of the people use Bitsi.m to send triggers through serial ports and EYELINK code them as INPUT event type. In Frankfurt (ESI), Alina Peters and Ayelet Landau use the psychtoolbox function Eyelink('message','mymessage'), and the messages (behaving as triggers) are coded as MESSAGE EYELINK event types. Plan: ft_read_event should recognize all EYELINK event types to facilitate fieldtrip data processing


Alina - 2014-04-07 14:51:59 +0200

Created attachment 603 My proposed changes in the read_eyelink_asc.m function! Diego, what do you think? I made it so that Fieldtrip will split the lines with information about saccades and fixations into start time, end time, duration and so on. Next thing that would be useful is to be able to mark every data point in the time series as a part of a saccade or a fixation. But I couldn't find a fast way to compute it.


Stephen Whitmarsh - 2016-07-21 09:56:28 +0200

Hi Alina et al., Have you made any changes to this code since? Are you happy with how FT handles the events. I am starting my analysis of eyelink data here in Paris, and am also interested in using the events generated by the Eyelink software. Best, Stephen