Title
Third order spectral analysis robust to mixing artifacts for mapping cross-frequency interactions in EEG/MEG.
Abstract
We present a novel approach to the third order spectral analysis, commonly called bispectral analysis, of electroencephalographic (EEG) and magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data for studying cross-frequency functional brain connectivity. The main obstacle in estimating functional connectivity from EEG and MEG measurements lies in the signals being a largely unknown mixture of the activities of the underlying brain sources. This often constitutes a severe confounder and heavily affects the detection of brain source interactions. To overcome this problem, we previously developed metrics based on the properties of the imaginary part of coherency. Here, we generalize these properties from the linear to the nonlinear case. Specifically, we propose a metric based on an antisymmetric combination of cross-bispectra, which we demonstrate to be robust to mixing artifacts. Moreover, our metric provides complex-valued quantities that give the opportunity to study phase relationships between brain sources.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.064
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
Functional connectivity,Cross-frequency interactions,Higher order spectral analysis,Bispectrum,Brain networks,Volume conduction
Brain mapping,Developmental psychology,Nonlinear system,Bispectrum,Resting state fMRI,Psychology,Antisymmetric relation,Magnetoencephalography,Electroencephalography,Bispectral analysis
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
91
1053-8119
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.89
17
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
F Chella190.89
Laura Marzetti21229.39
V Pizzella320024.54
Filippo Zappasodi45310.43
Guido Nolte5514.39