Reading/Writing a noise covariance matrix

How to plot a noise covariance matrix.

# Author: Alexandre Gramfort <alexandre.gramfort@inria.fr>
#
# License: BSD-3-Clause
# Copyright the MNE-Python contributors.

import mne
from mne.datasets import sample

data_path = sample.data_path()
fname_cov = data_path / "MEG" / "sample" / "sample_audvis-cov.fif"
fname_evo = data_path / "MEG" / "sample" / "sample_audvis-ave.fif"

cov = mne.read_cov(fname_cov)
print(cov)
ev_info = mne.io.read_info(fname_evo)

Plot covariance

cov.plot(ev_info, exclude="bads", show_svd=False)

Estimated memory usage: 0 MB