Dear Expert
I would like to compute the coherence between different ROI on Desikan-Killiany atlas starting from High density EEG recording. In particular I am interested in the coherence between different cortical area during long-lasting interictal discharges of epileptic patients.
When I compute the coherence starting from the trials (16 trials 4 second each) or starting from the concatenation of all trials I obtain quite different results, as you can see from the picture
-Would you recommend starting from trials and then average all coherence values, or starting from concatenated data?
-Which kind of connectivity estimation (coherence, PLV, Envelope, etc...) fits better with study design (interictal EEG connectivity) in your experience
Thanks
Lorenzo
Would you recommend starting from trials and then average all coherence values, or starting from concatenated data?
Different research groups do different things, there are pros and cons for both approaches.
In favor of concatenating (the default option if you select all the trials in Process1): it provides longer time series, you get more stable estimators for cross-spectra. Necessary when the epochs are very short
Against the concatenation: it introduces discontinuities in the signal, which creates large artifacts in spectral domain.
With 4s epochs, maybe this is long enough not to have to concatenate the trials, and average the coherence values computed for each trial separately. But I'm not sure...
@Sylvain @hossein27en @pantazis What do you think?
In both cases, you can't make any direct conclusion with one or the other graph. In general, you should not try to compare the coherence value obtained for two different pairs of ROIs.
You need to contrast these results between two experimental conditions, or two groups of participants: compute this measure for all the subjects and then run a non-parametric statistical test to explore the significant differences between the two conditions or groups.
Ideally, you would obtain the same maps of statistical differences no matter which solution you selected for the computation of the coherence.
Which kind of connectivity estimation (coherence, PLV, Envelope, etc...) fits better with study design (interictal EEG connectivity) in your experience
@Sylvain @hossein27en?
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Dear Francois
Thank you so much for the fast and clear response. I'm going to use the trials and compare interictal with normal background
Lorenzo
@giolloiljolly23 Hi Lorenzo
Francois's description is complete. I suggest using the single trails, compute the coherence values, and then average among all coherence values.
