Removing artefacts from TMS-EEG recordings using independent component analysis: Importance for assessing prefrontal and motor cortex network properties

NeuroImage

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 425-439

  Rogasch, Nigel C ^a,b   Thomson, Richard H ^a   Farzan, Faranak ^c   Fitzgibbon, Bernadette M ^a   Bailey, Neil W ^a   Hernandez Pavon, Julio C ^d   Daskalakis, Zafiris J ^c   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a Australia   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Electroencephalography; Independent component analysis; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLINK ARTEFACT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECAY ARTEFACT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ARTEFACT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NOISE RELATED ARTEFACT; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905647863     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.037     Document Type: Article

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