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Virginia Commonwealth University

Theses and Dissertations

2013

Coherence

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The Effect Of Concurrent Cognitive-Visuomotor Multitasking And Task Difficulty On Dynamic Functional Connectivity In The Brain, Plamen Nikolov Jul 2013

The Effect Of Concurrent Cognitive-Visuomotor Multitasking And Task Difficulty On Dynamic Functional Connectivity In The Brain, Plamen Nikolov

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This thesis investigated the effect of visuomotor and working memory 1) task difficulty and 2) multitasking on dynamic functional connectivity in the brain. Studies have only recently begun to investigate functional connectivity within the scope of concurrent dual task or varying task difficulty conditions (Cocchi, Zalesky, et al. 2011; Rietschel et al. 2012). A series of EEG recordings were conducted during execution of visuomotor or working memory tasks within a novel paradigm using BCI2VR custom MATLAB toolbox. Functional connectivity was correlated with task-related coherence (TRCoh) analysis between two task conditions involving either variation in task difficulty or concurrent execution during …