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EEG and Brain Connectivity: A Tutorial - Bio-Medical Instruments, Inc.

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Fig – 17. Top is coherence (y-axis) vs signal-to-noise ratio (x-axis). Coherence drops off<br />

Rapidly <strong>and</strong> is invalid. Bottom is phase angle on the y-axis <strong>and</strong> signal-to-noise ratio on<br />

the x-axis. Phase locking is minimal or absent <strong>and</strong> unstable throughout the entire<br />

simulation <strong>and</strong> fails to exhibit the 30 degree phase difference.<br />

The results of these analyses are consistent with those by<br />

Rappelsberger, 1989 who emphasized the value <strong>and</strong> validity of using a<br />

single reference <strong>and</strong> linked ears in estimating the magnitude of shared or<br />

coupled activity between two scalp electrodes. The use of re-montage<br />

methods such as the average reference <strong>and</strong> Laplacian source derivation are<br />

useful in helping to determine the location of the sources of <strong>EEG</strong> of different<br />

amplitudes at different locations. However, the results of this study which<br />

again confirm the findings of Rappelsberger <strong>and</strong> Petsche, 1988<br />

<strong>and</strong> Rappelsberger, 1989 which showed that coherence is invalid when using<br />

either an average reference or the Laplacian source derivation. This same<br />

conclusion was also demonstrated by Korzeniewska, et al (2003).<br />

19- What is “Inflation” of Coherence (<strong>and</strong> correlation)?

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