.cnt files

[vishnu-ivariable]

Brother raw EEG data is in .cnt format and cant open through Python. It is throwing "'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa8 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)" error.

[ngebodh]

Thanks for your feedback.

There are known imcompatabilities with raw ANT .cnt files and MNE. There may be a fix coming soon from ANT. You can read more here: https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/issues/3609

In the mean time there are a few options to use the data in MNE:

• You can use the downsampled .mat versions of the files provided (see under "Extras"). These can be imported into Python then passed to MNE.

• You can import the EEGlab .set files into MNE. These files are povided in BIDS format on OpenNeuro here. Here's a Google Colab Notebook showing how