Cortical connectivity dynamics of α/β oscillations during sentence presentation.

For each time interval of sentence presentation (A-C) and frequency band, power-envelope correlations between EEG oscillatory sources were estimated by concatenating 1-s windowed signals across all 240 trials (4-min data) and compared with 4-min resting state connectivity at the same frequency band (i.e., task minus rest). Toward the end of sentence and particularly during final word presentation, alpha-band connectivity was significantly decreased across posterior cortical regions (A-C, first column; paired-sample permutation tests; significant nodes are outlined in black). Beta-band connectivity was not significantly different than rest during sentence presentation. Connectivity difference maps were averaged across N = 154 individuals and thresholded at 10% of network density. Nodes correspond to cortical parcels as in [46] and are grouped according to their cortical lobes. The data underlying this figure can be found at https://osf.io/ge2cq/. EEG, electroencephalography; LH, left hemisphere; RH: right hemisphere.

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