Bad segment removing

Hi there Francois and Martin. I just want to make sure I understood correctly:

Suppose I have a continuous signal including three blocks and breaks between them. Breaks obviously contain a lot of heavy noise due to movement and talking, which I want to get rid of before running SSPs/ICAs as a way to optimise the results of such procedures. If I mark these long segments as bad, will it have the same effect as cutting the breaks out and concatenating the signal corresponding to my blocks (namely, SSPs/ICAs will "ignore" these segments of gross noise) or is it something I should do in Matlab before importing my raw file?

I hope I made myself clear with the wording. Thanks in advance.

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