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A critical assessment of connectivity measures for EEG data: A simulation study

Authors
Haufe, StefanNikulin, Vadim V.Mueller, Klaus-RobertNolte, Guido
Issue Date
1-1월-2013
Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Keywords
EEG; Effective connectivity; Inverse source reconstruction; GC; PDC; PSI; WMN; S-FLEX; LCMV
Citation
NEUROIMAGE, v.64, pp.120 - 133
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Journal Title
NEUROIMAGE
Volume
64
Start Page
120
End Page
133
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/104243
DOI
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.036
ISSN
1053-8119
Abstract
Information flow between brain areas is difficult to estimate from EEG measurements due to the presence of noise as well as due to volume conduction. We here test the ability of popular measures of effective connectivity to detect an underlying neuronal interaction from simulated EEG data, as well as the ability of commonly used inverse source reconstruction techniques to improve the connectivity estimation. We find that volume conduction severely limits the neurophysiological interpretability of sensor-space connectivity analyses. Moreover, it may generally lead to conflicting results depending on the connectivity measure and statistical testing approach used. In particular, we note that the application of Granger-causal (GC) measures combined with standard significance testing leads to the detection of spurious connectivity regardless of whether the analysis is performed on sensor-space data or on sources estimated using three different established inverse methods. This empirical result follows from the definition of GC. The phase-slope index (PSI) does not suffer from this theoretical limitation and therefore performs well on our simulated data. We develop a theoretical framework to characterize artifacts of volume conduction, which may still be present even in reconstructed source time series as zero-lag correlations, and to distinguish their time-delayed brain interaction. Based on this theory we derive a procedure which suppresses the influence of volume conduction, but preserves effects related to time-lagged brain interaction in connectivity estimates. This is achieved by using time-reversed data as surrogates for statistical testing. We demonstrate that this robustification makes Granger-causal connectivity measures applicable to EEG data, achieving similar results as PSI. Integrating the insights of our study, we provide a guidance for measuring brain interaction from EEG data. Software for generating benchmark data is made available. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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