blink-retained versus blink-rejected resting frontal EEG data for 40 randomly selected participants in the present sample were excellent (ranging from .91 to .99 for AVG and LM reference modes across the four frontal channel pairs). These results replicate research demonstrating that retaining or rejecting blinks appears to have a negligible effect on EEG asymmetry in the alpha band (Hagemann & Naumann, 2001). Therefore, blinks were rejected for all resting data, as per convention, but not for any DFA task-related data.
