On the Existence of Synchrostates in Multichannel EEG Signals during Face-perception Tasks

نویسندگان

  • Wasifa Jamal
  • Saptarshi Das
  • Koushik Maharatna
  • Fabio Apicella
  • Georgia Chronaki
  • Federico Sicca
  • David Cohen
  • Filippo Muratori
چکیده

Phase synchronisation inmultichannel electroencephalography (EEG) is known as themanifestation of functional brain connectivity. Traditional phase synchronisation studies aremostly based on time average synchronymeasures, and hence do not preserve the temporal evolution of the phase difference. Here we propose a newmethod to show the existence of a small set of unique phase synchronised patterns or ‘states’ inmulti-channel EEG recordings, each ‘state’ being stable of the order ofms, from typical and pathological subjects during face perception tasks. The proposed methodology bridges the concepts of EEGmicrostates and phase synchronisation in the time and frequency domain, respectively. The analysis is reported for four groups of children including typical, autism spectrumdisorder, low and high anxiety subjects—a total of 44. In all cases, we observe consistent existence of these states—termed as synchrostates—within specific cognition-related frequency bands (beta and gamma bands), though the topographies of these synchrostates differ for different subject groupswith different pathological conditions. The inter-synchrostate switching follows awell-defined sequence capturing the underlying inter-electrode phase relation dynamics in a stimulusand person-centricmanner. Our study ismotivated by thewell-knownEEGmicrostate exhibiting stable potentialmaps over the scalp.However, here we report a similar observation of quasi-stable phase synchronised states inmultichannel EEG. The existence of the synchrostates coupledwith their unique switching sequence characteristics could be considered as a potentially new field over contemporary EEGphase synchronisation studies.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1611.09791  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015