FT_RECODEEVENT
Note that this reference documentation is identical to the help that is displayed in MATLAB when you type “help ft_recodeevent”.
FT_RECODEEVENT will recode the event structure, given the trial definition that was analyzed In FieldTrip, you always start with defining a "trl" field containing the samples in the raw datafile that you want to analyze. That "trl" is based on the events in the dataset. After artifact rejection, it may be the case that trials have been removed completely, or that trials have been cut into pieces. This complicates finding a match between the original events and the pieces of data that are analyzed. This functino restores that match. Use as [ev] = ft_recodeevent(cfg, data) where cfg is a structure with configuration settings and data contains the (nested) configuration that describes the original trial definition and event structure. Alternatively, you can also specify the event structure and trial definition yourself with [ev] = ft_recodeevent(cfg, event, trl) the configuration can contain cfg.eventtype = empty, 'string' or cell-array with multiple strings cfg.eventvalue = empty or a list of event values (can be numeric or string) cfg.searchrange = 'anywhere' search anywhere for the event, (default) 'insidetrial' only search inside 'outsidetrial' only search outside 'beforetrial' only search before the trial 'aftertrial' only search after the trial 'beforezero' only search before time t=0 of each trial 'afterzero' only search after time t=0 of each trial cfg.nearestto = 'trialzero' compare with time t=0 for each trial (default) 'trialbegin' compare with the begin of each trial 'trialend' compare with the end of each trial cfg.match = 'exact' or 'nearest' cfg.output = 'event' the event itself 'eventvalue' the value of the event 'eventnumber' the number of the event 'samplenumber' the sample at which the event is located 'samplefromoffset' number of samples from t=0 (c.f. response time) 'samplefrombegin' number of samples from the begin of the trial 'samplefromend' number of samples from the end of the trial See also FT_DEFINETRIAL, FT_REDEFINETRIAL, FT_PREPROCESSING