MEG corticomuscular coherence

Authors: Raymundo Cassani

Corticomuscular coherence relates to the synchrony between electrophisiological signals (MEG, EEG or ECoG) recorded from the contralateral motor cortex, and EMG signal from a muscle during voluntary movement. This synchrony has its origin mainly in the descending communication in corticospinal pathways between primary motor cortex (M1) and muscles. This tutorial replicates the processing pipeline and analysis presented in the Analysis of corticomuscular coherence FieldTrip tutorial.

Background

Coherence is a classic method to measure the linear relationship between two signals in the frequency domain. Previous studies (Conway et al., 1995, Kilner et al., 2000) have used coherence to study the relationship between MEG signals from M1 and muscles, and they have shown synchronized activity in the 15–30 Hz range during maintained voluntary contractions. Kilkner 2000

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Dataset description

License

MEG EMG equipment trials duration which ones will be analyzed

Download and installation

You should have Brainstorm Download data from Fieldtrip FTP

Example of performing citations in text, and .

The imaginary coherence (Nolte et al., 2004), commonly found as: .

Importing anatomy data

1. Create protocol 1.

Access the recordings

1. How to link the MEG recordings

Handle events

Fusion all the left events

Pre-process recordings

Removing artifacts

Importing the recordings

Epoching

Source analysis

Coherence

Sensor level

Source level

Script

This should be label as advanced.

Additional documentation

Articles

• Conway BA, Halliday DM, Farmer SF, Shahani U, Maas P, Weir AI, et al.
  Synchronization between motor cortex and spinal motoneuronal pool during the performance of a maintained motor task in man.
  The Journal of Physiology. 1995 Dec 15;489(3):917–24.

• Kilner JM, Baker SN, Salenius S, Hari R, Lemon RN.
  Human Cortical Muscle Coherence Is Directly Related to Specific Motor Parameters.
  J Neurosci. 2000 Dec 1;20(23):8838–45.

• Liu J, Sheng Y, Liu H.
  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00100Corticomuscular Coherence and Its Applications: A Review. Front Hum Neurosci. 2019 Mar 20;13:100.

Tutorials

• Tutorial: Volume source estimation

Forum discussions

• Forum: Minimum norm units (pA.m): http://neuroimage.usc.edu/forums/showthread.php?1246