Handling of sleep stages (animals vs. humans)

[jens-k]

Should we allow the user to provide names for the NREM sleep stages in output.info.cfg.code_NREM (this would be another cfg entry given to detectEvents, since we don't have a cfg here..)?

This would be a way to disambiguate stages names in animal vs. human recordings.

Currently, if one scores all NREM as '2', this will be shown as 'S2'. Is that a problem? We could show it as '2' to make clear, this is taken from the hypnogram and doesn't have to adhere to Rechtschaffen & Kales.

[jens-k]

Part of this issue is:
Should plotDetectedEvents plot all sleep stages present in the data or only the stages over which detection was done? In the perfect case, I would want to tell the function: NREM is [2 3 4] but please detect spindles only in 2. On the other hand, the functions should not get too complex (=harder to use for the user and to maintain for us).

We could assume the user always provides all NREM sleep stages but then note down for each spindle the respective sleep stage. For that, one would have to save them instead as a 2xn vector as a 3xn vector (or better: an nx3 vector).

[jens-k]

@NNiethard ?

[NNiethard]

Yes, this definetly would make sense.