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Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Brain Oscillations During Sports Motor Imagery

The aim of this work was to re-evaluate electrophysiological data from a previous study on motor imagery (MI) with a special focus on observed inter- and intra-individual differences. More concretely, we investigated event-related desynchronization/synchronization patterns during sports MI (playing...

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Autores principales: Wriessnegger, Selina C., Müller-Putz, Gernot R., Brunner, Clemens, Sburlea, Andreea I.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7662155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33192406
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.576241
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author Wriessnegger, Selina C.
Müller-Putz, Gernot R.
Brunner, Clemens
Sburlea, Andreea I.
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Müller-Putz, Gernot R.
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description The aim of this work was to re-evaluate electrophysiological data from a previous study on motor imagery (MI) with a special focus on observed inter- and intra-individual differences. More concretely, we investigated event-related desynchronization/synchronization patterns during sports MI (playing tennis) compared with simple MI (squeezing a ball) and discovered high variability across participants. Thirty healthy volunteers were divided in two groups; the experimental group (EG) performed a physical exercise between two imagery sessions, and the control group (CG) watched a landscape movie without physical activity. We computed inter-individual differences by assessing the dissimilarities among subjects for each group, condition, time period, and frequency band. In the alpha band, we observe some clustering in the ranking of the subjects, therefore showing smaller distances than others. Moreover, in our statistical evaluation, we observed a consistency in ranking across time periods both for the EG and for the CG. For the latter, we also observed similar rankings across conditions. On the contrary, in the beta band, the ranking of the subjects was more similar for the EG across conditions and time periods than for the subjects of the CG. With this study, we would like to draw attention to variability measures instead of primarily focusing on the identification of common patterns across participants, which often do not reflect the whole neurophysiological reality.
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spelling pubmed-76621552020-11-13 Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Brain Oscillations During Sports Motor Imagery Wriessnegger, Selina C. Müller-Putz, Gernot R. Brunner, Clemens Sburlea, Andreea I. Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience The aim of this work was to re-evaluate electrophysiological data from a previous study on motor imagery (MI) with a special focus on observed inter- and intra-individual differences. More concretely, we investigated event-related desynchronization/synchronization patterns during sports MI (playing tennis) compared with simple MI (squeezing a ball) and discovered high variability across participants. Thirty healthy volunteers were divided in two groups; the experimental group (EG) performed a physical exercise between two imagery sessions, and the control group (CG) watched a landscape movie without physical activity. We computed inter-individual differences by assessing the dissimilarities among subjects for each group, condition, time period, and frequency band. In the alpha band, we observe some clustering in the ranking of the subjects, therefore showing smaller distances than others. Moreover, in our statistical evaluation, we observed a consistency in ranking across time periods both for the EG and for the CG. For the latter, we also observed similar rankings across conditions. On the contrary, in the beta band, the ranking of the subjects was more similar for the EG across conditions and time periods than for the subjects of the CG. With this study, we would like to draw attention to variability measures instead of primarily focusing on the identification of common patterns across participants, which often do not reflect the whole neurophysiological reality. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7662155/ /pubmed/33192406 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.576241 Text en Copyright © 2020 Wriessnegger, Müller-Putz, Brunner and Sburlea. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Wriessnegger, Selina C.
Müller-Putz, Gernot R.
Brunner, Clemens
Sburlea, Andreea I.
Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Brain Oscillations During Sports Motor Imagery
title Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Brain Oscillations During Sports Motor Imagery
title_full Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Brain Oscillations During Sports Motor Imagery
title_fullStr Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Brain Oscillations During Sports Motor Imagery
title_full_unstemmed Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Brain Oscillations During Sports Motor Imagery
title_short Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Brain Oscillations During Sports Motor Imagery
title_sort inter- and intra-individual variability in brain oscillations during sports motor imagery
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7662155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33192406
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.576241
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