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21 January, 2021

FieldTrip version 20210121 has been released. It fixes a visualization bug that was recently reported for ft_rejectvisual but also for ft_databrowser. Now, once again, you can scroll your artefacts with no problems. Many thanks to Benjy Barnett. It also includes improvements for checking the grad and elec sensor structures, which will speed up the execution of your analyses. See GitHub for the detailed list of updates.

Selected commits

• 6637749 speed up the checking of the grad and elec structures (#1649)
• 900cf78 warn only once when brainvision timestamps cannot be parsed (#1646)
• a0cea15 Fix visualisation (as done for rejectvisual_trial) (#1647)

18 December, 2020

Yesterday Mats van Es defended his PhD thesis “On the role of oscillatory synchrony in neural processing” and was awarded the PhD title. Congratulations!

Mats not only used FieldTrip in a number of interesting MEG studies, but also contributed as lecturer in the MEG toolkit courses. Furthermore, he recently implemented the reproducescript functionality (which will be published soon). He continues his research at the MEG center in Oxford.

18 December, 2020

Thanks to Sander, Catarina, Casper, Julia, Christopher, Marije and Maria from the Glasgow Memory Lab for the very kind words on your postcard to the FieldTrip team. Greatly appreciated!

27 November, 2020

Regretfully we identified a bug in FieldTrip releases starting from release 20200701 onward, which might have affected your results.

Specifically, if you have been using ft_sourceanalysis with DICS as a method, and if the order of the channels of the input data structure was not alphabetical, the results are incorrect. This is caused by an accidental alphabetical reordering of the channels in the cross-spectral density matrix, which was not reflected by a similar reordering in the leadfields. We are grateful to Alexandra Steina to help us identify and resolve it. See issue #1587 on GitHub for more information.

Are you affected? If you used a FieldTrip version between 20200701 and 20201126, and you used ft_sourceanalysis with method DICS, and your channels are not in alphabetical order, then you are likely affected. For CTF MEG data the channels are usually in alphabetical order. Neuromag/Elekta MEG data, and MEG data from other systems often have the channels not in alphabetical order. The same holds for EEG data, so your results are likely affected if you are working with EEG data, or non-CTF MEG data.

To resolve the problem, please update to the latest 20201126 release version from the FTP server or from the GitHub release page, recompute your source estimates, and your downstream results.

20 November, 2020

fNIRS is often used in freely moving subjects and in motion research. We implemented a FieldTrip example script that makes a movie of the fNIRS signal, motion capture, and video data together. The movie demonstrates the fNIRS signals and artifacts synchronously with video data during various movements, such as walking, turning, frowning, head movements and jumping. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1OB-vTWCys.

9 October, 2020

Robert presented two new features of FieldTrip on the online LiveMEEG 2020 conference. We now have the data2bids function to help you to organize your data in the BIDS structure and to share it. Best do this before you start doing your analysis, so that your analysis scripts can be shared along with the data or publication. Furthermore, all high-level FieldTrip functions now have the cfg.reproducescript option that allows you to create a tutorial-style analysis script of everything you do, regardless of how much your original code resembles a plate of spaghetti ;-)

The presentation includes a live demo and has been recorded; you can watch it on Crowdcast. The slides of the presentation are available on SlideShare.

17 September, 2020

We are changing our communication strategy, which is an integral part of our work! We will continue to use this website for news items and updates on releases, but we will also use Twitter more systematically and to the point. Instead of sending a tweet upon every commit (which made sense in the pre-GitHub days but not any more), we will start sending less frequent but more interesting tweets with important releases, announcements of new features, documentation updates, training events, and other interesting information! So to follow the important news, please keep checking here or follow us on Twitter.

01 July, 2020

In FieldTrip release 20200701 the low-level functions in fieldtrip/inverse have been renamed to ft_inverse_xxx and their input and output arguments have been cleaned up. This addresses a long-standing plan for improving the inverse modeling API. Except for the renaming of the low-level functions (which you won’t notice if you call them through the high-level ft_sourceanalysis and ft_dipolefitting) there are no functional changes.