Testing for significance of phase synchronisation dynamics in the EEG

Daly, I., Sweeney-Reed, C. M. and Nasuto, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9414-9049 (2013) Testing for significance of phase synchronisation dynamics in the EEG. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 34 (3). pp. 411-432. ISSN 1573-6873 doi: 10.1007/s10827-012-0428-2

Abstract/Summary

A number of tests exist to check for statistical significance of phase synchronisation within the Electroencephalogram (EEG); however, the majority suffer from a lack of generality and applicability. They may also fail to account for temporal dynamics in the phase synchronisation, regarding synchronisation as a constant state instead of a dynamical process. Therefore, a novel test is developed for identifying the statistical significance of phase synchronisation based upon a combination of work characterising temporal dynamics of multivariate time-series and Markov modelling. We show how this method is better able to assess the significance of phase synchronisation than a range of commonly used significance tests. We also show how the method may be applied to identify and classify significantly different phase synchronisation dynamics in both univariate and multivariate datasets.

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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering
Uncontrolled Keywords	Phase synchronisation Statistical significance testing EEG HMM SMM
Publisher	Springer
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