I am processing a dataset these days and I was trying to figure out whether to bandpass or not and this discussion was very helpful. I have one main concern:

Considering that I dont have physio recordings, just like samw, what would be a good justification when a reviewer complains about the cardiac and respiratory noise left in the data? It's more of a strategy question but I am asking because I have been through that once before with the reviewers and I couldn't convince them using the D.O.F argument? Could you point to some literature may be or perhaps phrase the argument in a way that would be more convincing?

Thanks,

Kausar