title: Event-related EEG/MEG synchronization and desynchronization: basic principles.
abstract: An internally or externally paced event results not only in the generation of an event-related potential (ERP) but also in a change in the ongoing EEG/MEG in form of an event-related desynchronization (ERD) or event-related synchronization (ERS). The ERP on the one side and the ERD/ERS on the other side are different responses of neuronal structures in the brain. While the former is phase-locked, the latter is not phase-locked to the event. The most important difference between both phenomena is that the ERD/ERS is highly frequency band-specific, whereby either the same or different locations on the scalp can display ERD and ERS simultaneously. Quantification of ERD/ERS in time and space is demonstrated on data from a number of movement experiments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pfurtscheller
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Lopes da Silva
mesh_terms: D003344:Cortical Synchronization; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D015225:Magnetoencephalography; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology