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A new statistical test based on the wavelet cross-spectrum to detect time-frequency dependence between non-stationary signals: application to the analysis of cortico-muscular interactions

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The study of the correlations that may exist between neurophysiological signals is at the heart of modern techniques for data analysis in neuroscience. Wavelet coherence is a popular method to construct a time-frequency map that can be used to analyze the time-frequency correlations between two time series. Coherence is a normalized measure of dependence, for which it is possible to construct confidence intervals, and that is commonly considered as being more interpretable than the wavelet cross-spectrum (WCS). In this paper, we provide empirical and theoretical arguments to show that a significant level of wavelet coherence does not necessarily correspond to a significant level of dependence between random signals, especially when the number of trials is small. In such cases, we demonstrate that the WCS is a much better measure of statistical dependence, and a new statistical test to detect significant values of the cross-spectrum is proposed. This test clearly outperforms the limitations of coherence analysis while still allowing a consistent estimation of the time-frequency correlations between two non-stationary stochastic processes. Simulated data are used to investigate the advantages of this new approach over coherence analysis. The method is also applied to experimental data sets to analyze the time-frequency correlations that may exist between electroencephalogram (EEG) and surface electromyogram (EMG).
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hal-00522835 , version 1 (01-10-2010)
hal-00522835 , version 2 (13-01-2011)

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Jérémie Bigot, Marieke Longcamp, Fabien Dal Maso, David Amarantini. A new statistical test based on the wavelet cross-spectrum to detect time-frequency dependence between non-stationary signals: application to the analysis of cortico-muscular interactions. 2011. ⟨hal-00522835v2⟩
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