EEG patterns during 'cognitive' tasks. I. Methodology and analysis of complex behaviors.

This paper presents a methodology which uses nonlinear pattern recognition to study the spatial distribution of EEG patterns accompanying higher cortical functions. The multivariate decision rules reveal the essential EEG patterns which differentiate performance of two tasks. Cross-validation classification accuracy measures the generality of the findings. Using this method, EEG patterns were derived from a group of 23 adults during performance of several complex tasks, including Koh's block design, writing sentences, mental paper folding, and reading silently. These patterns discriminate between the tasks, are consistent with, and extend the results of, visual EEG interpretations and univariate analysis of spectral intensities. Since writing sentences could not be distinguished from mere scribbling, it is unclear whether the EEG patterns found to distinguish complex behaviors were related to the cognitive components of tasks, or to sensory-motor and performance-related factors.

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