Abstract
Brain oscillations play important roles in the product of normal brain function, and not only one but several rhythms are involved in it. How these rhythmic activities interact has been a hot research topic in electrophysiological studies. A series of studies have found that interaction between different rhythms is associated with cognitive processes. This chapter will present the related information to introduce the cross-frequency methods.
An application of cross-frequency coupling was given to explore the speech perception in children. The results provided neuroanatomical evidence for theories of speech perception allowing for top-down feedback connections and also provided insight into children’s speech perception development. It indicated that the interaction of different oscillatory activities could be exploited to investigate the bottom-up and top-down mechanisms in speech perception.
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Wang, J., Li, X. (2016). Cross-Frequency Coupling in Neural Oscillations. In: Li, X. (eds) Signal Processing in Neuroscience. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1822-0_13
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