Electroencephalography: Comparability of Current Source Density Transformed and Non-Transformed Spectral Measures
Disciplines
Biological Psychology | Cognition and Perception
Abstract (300 words maximum)
The current study assesses the correspondence between electroencephalographic (EEG) data which has undergone surface Laplacian, or current source density (CSD), transformation and data which has not. Previous literature has suggested that the transformation does not alter spectral components of EEG data to a significant degree and thus can be compared to data which has not undergone CSD transformation. In the present analysis, data was processed via CSD and was subsequently compared to the non-CSD data for a single electrode utilizing bivariate correlation as well as comparing the average amplitude in alpha, beta, delta, and theta frequencies using t tests. The results indicate that while the correlation between CSD and non-CSD data is high, (>.75) across frequencies, there remain significant differences between the two groups.
Academic department under which the project should be listed
RCHSS - Psychological Science
Primary Investigator (PI) Name
Tim Martin
Additional Faculty
Voyko Kavcic, Department of Gerontology at Wayne State University, eq2623@wayne.edu
Electroencephalography: Comparability of Current Source Density Transformed and Non-Transformed Spectral Measures
The current study assesses the correspondence between electroencephalographic (EEG) data which has undergone surface Laplacian, or current source density (CSD), transformation and data which has not. Previous literature has suggested that the transformation does not alter spectral components of EEG data to a significant degree and thus can be compared to data which has not undergone CSD transformation. In the present analysis, data was processed via CSD and was subsequently compared to the non-CSD data for a single electrode utilizing bivariate correlation as well as comparing the average amplitude in alpha, beta, delta, and theta frequencies using t tests. The results indicate that while the correlation between CSD and non-CSD data is high, (>.75) across frequencies, there remain significant differences between the two groups.