Wavelet coherence of EEG signals for a visual oddball task
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Yahya T Qassim1, Tim R H Cutmore, Daniel A James
1Centre of Wireless Monitoring and Applications, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, Brisbane, QLD 4111, Australia. yahya-taher.qassim@griffithuni.edu.au
Abstract:
Neural co-activation in frontal and central cortex was examined during a visual oddball task using wavelet coherence. EEG was recorded during a visual oddball task, presented to 12 participants with a random mix of 15% oddball targets and 85% frequent non-target letters over 265 trials. Wavelet coherence of individual trials was shown to distinguish frequent and oddball trials. Averaged wavelet coherence showed significant differences: oddball targets showed higher delta-theta activity whereas frequent background stimuli showed higher gamma activity. Increased gamma coherence appeared to be related to expectation of the targets with our analysis showing an R(2) of 0.935 for the relationship between averaged sections of gamma coherence and the number of intervening (frequent) trials since the last oddball.
