Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29614020›Full record

ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Effects of Cable Sway, Electrode Surface Area, and Electrode Mass on Electroencephalography Signal Quality during Motion.

Evangelia-Regkina Symeonidou, Andrew D Nordin, W David Hairston, Daniel P Ferris

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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48citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Evangelia-Regkina SymeonidouJ. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. esymeonidou@bme.ufl.edu.
Andrew D NordinJ. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. andrew.nordin@bme.ufl.edu.
W David HairstonU. S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, MD 21005, USA. william.d.hairston4.civ@mail.mil.
Daniel P FerrisJ. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. dferris@bme.ufl.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6373-6021
University of Florida · USDEVCOM Army Research Laboratory · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More neuroscience researchers are using scalp electroencephalography (EEG) to measure electrocortical dynamics during human locomotion and other types of movement. Motion artifacts corrupt the EEG and mask underlying neural signals of interest. The cause of motion artifacts in EEG is often attributed to electrode motion relative to the skin, but few studies have examined EEG signals under head motion. In the current study, we tested how motion artifacts are affected by the overall mass and surface area of commercially available electrodes, as well as how cable sway contributes to motion artifacts. To provide a ground-truth signal, we used a gelatin head phantom with embedded antennas broadcasting electrical signals, and recorded EEG with a commercially available electrode system. A robotic platform moved the phantom head through sinusoidal displacements at different frequencies (0-2 Hz). Results showed that a larger electrode surface area can have a small but significant effect on improving EEG signal quality during motion and that cable sway is a major contributor to motion artifacts. These results have implications in the development of future hardware for mobile brain imaging with EEG.

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cable swayEEGelectrode masselectrode surface arealocomotionmotion artifactsphantom headsignal to noise ratio

Identifiers

PMID29614020
PMCPMC5948545
OpenAlexW2796045214

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