mne.time_frequency.psd_welch¶

mne.time_frequency.psd_welch(inst, fmin=0, fmax=inf, tmin=None, tmax=None, n_fft=256, n_overlap=0, n_per_seg=None, picks=None, proj=False, n_jobs=1, reject_by_annotation=True, average='mean', verbose=None)[source]¶

Compute the power spectral density (PSD) using Welch’s method.

Calculates periodograms for a sliding window over the time dimension, then averages them together for each channel/epoch.

Parameters

instinstance of Epochs or Raw or Evoked

The data for PSD calculation.

fminfloat

Min frequency of interest.

fmaxfloat

Max frequency of interest.

tminfloat | None

Min time of interest.

tmaxfloat | None

Max time of interest.

n_fftint

The length of FFT used, must be >= n_per_seg (default: 256). The segments will be zero-padded if n_fft > n_per_seg. If n_per_seg is None, n_fft must be <= number of time points in the data.

n_overlapint

The number of points of overlap between segments. Will be adjusted to be <= n_per_seg. The default value is 0.

n_per_segint | None

Length of each Welch segment (windowed with a Hamming window). Defaults to None, which sets n_per_seg equal to n_fft.

picksstr | list | slice | None

Channels to include. Slices and lists of integers will be interpreted as channel indices. In lists, channel type strings (e.g., ['meg', 'eeg']) will pick channels of those types, channel name strings (e.g., ['MEG0111', 'MEG2623'] will pick the given channels. Can also be the string values “all” to pick all channels, or “data” to pick data channels. None (default) will pick good data channels(excluding reference MEG channels).

projbool

Apply SSP projection vectors. If inst is ndarray this is not used.

n_jobsint

The number of jobs to run in parallel (default 1). Requires the joblib package.

reject_by_annotationbool

Whether to omit bad segments from the data before fitting. If True (default), annotated segments whose description begins with 'bad' are omitted. If False, no rejection based on annotations is performed.

Has no effect if inst is not a mne.io.Raw object.

New in version 0.15.0.

averagestr | None

How to average the segments. If mean (default), calculate the arithmetic mean. If median, calculate the median, corrected for its bias relative to the mean. If None, returns the unaggregated segments.

New in version 0.19.0.

verbosebool, str, int, or None

If not None, override default verbose level (see mne.verbose() and Logging documentation for more). If used, it should be passed as a keyword-argument only.

Returns

psdsndarray, shape (…, n_freqs) or (…, n_freqs, n_segments): The power spectral densities. If average='mean or average='median' and input is of type Raw or Evoked, then psds will be of shape (n_channels, n_freqs); if input is of type Epochs, then psds will be of shape (n_epochs, n_channels, n_freqs). If average=None, the returned array will have an additional dimension corresponding to the unaggregated segments.
freqsndarray, shape (n_freqs,): The frequencies.