Brain connectivity
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Cortical activity is maintained by neural networks working in tandem. Electroencephalographic (EEG) signals across two sites are said to be coherent with one another when they show consistent phase relations. However, periods of desynchrony beginning with a shift in phase relations are a necessary aspect of information processing. ⋯ The latter have higher rates of connectivity overall and specifically more long-range connections. As expected, the resting task appears to activate more localized neural circuitry, whereas the active tasks appear to increase communication across several neural regions involved in vigilance tasks. The vigilance tasks also showed significantly higher clustering coefficients than the resting task, a property associated with small-world networks.