Research Article

A Link between the Increase in Electroencephalographic Coherence and Performance Improvement in Operating a Brain-Computer Interface

Table 1

Results of ANOVA and multiple comparison tests for each subject and training scheme in the cases when an incremental ErCoh on the contralateral centrofrontal or centroparietal areas was found.
(a) ErCoh analysis

SubjectTraining Compared sessionsPair of electrodes value Multiple comparisons

1 PA S1–S6 Cz-P3 8.88S2, S3, S5, S6 > S1;
S3, S5, S6 > S4

2 FES S1–S4 C3-P3 97.73 S2, S3, S4 > S1

3 FES S1–S4 C3-P3 3.74 S2, S3, S4 > S1
V S1–S6 C3-F3 247.35 S5 > S4, S6 > S3 > S1 > S2
C3-P3 32.54 S5, S6 > S4 > S3, S2, S1;
S3 > S1
NA S1–S5 C3-F3 21.91 S3, S4, S5 > S1, S2
Cz-P3 13.54 S3, S5 > S1, S2;
S4 > S1

4 NA S1–S6 C3-F3 23.51 S5, S4 > S1;
S3 > S1, S2, S4, S5, S6

5 FES S1–S4 C3-F3 12.57 S3, S4 > S1, S2

6 FES S1–S5 C3-F3 15.23 S4, S5 > S1, S2;
S5 > S3

(b) Accuracy analysis

Subject Training Compared sessions value Multiple comparisons

1 PA S1–S6 3.44 0.0146 S2, S3, S5, S6 > S1

2 FES S1–S4 2.27 0.1060

3 FES S1–S4 4.38 0.0159 S4 > S1
V S1–S6 18.08 S4, S5, S6 > S1, S2, S3
NA S1–S5 0.4174 0.7944

4 NA S1–S6 5.36 0.0013 S3, S4, S6 > S2

5 FES S1–S4 18.81 S3, S4 > S1, S2

6 FES S1–S5 3.43 0.0200 S4, S5 > S2