Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD.

Humans are social creatures, and many tasks in our daily lives are solved together. The two main forms of social interaction in problem solving could be defined as competition and cooperation. In our study, we compared the ERS/ERD when performing a creative task (Alternative Uses Test, AUT) and a control task ("naming the objects from the presented category") under competitive conditions in dyads (22 dyads, m-m, f-f, 18-23 years old) compared to the performance of tasks individually.

EEG "Signs" of Verbal Creative Task Fulfillment with and without Overcoming Self-Induced Stereotypes.

The study aimed to reveal task-related differences in story creation with and without the mental effort of overcoming self-induced stereotypes. Eighteen right-handed subjects (19.3 ± 1.

Specificity of spontaneous EEG associated with different levels of cognitive and communicative dysfunctions in children.

This study aimed to reveal electrophysiological markers of communicative and cognitive dysfunctions of different severity in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Eyes-opened electroencephalograms (EEGs) of 42 children with ASD, divided into two groups according to the severity of their communicative and cognitive dysfunctions (24 with severe and 18 children with less severe ASD), and 70 age-matched controls aged 4-9 years were examined by means of spectral and group independent component (gIC) analyses. A predominance of theta and beta EEG activity in both groups of children with ASD compared to the activity in the control group was found in the global gIC together with a predominance of beta EEG activity in the right occipital region.

[Classification of EEG Patterns of Imagined Rhythmic Movements of the Fingers of One Hand].

The article presents the results of classification of EEG patterns registered during imagined rhytmic movements of the fingers of the right hand (little, thumb, index, middle fingers) in 8 healthy subjects. The subjects imagined finger movements in a given rhythm; no external stimuli were used. A two-level committee of classifiers was developed for decoding: the first level included support vector machines and artificial neural networks; the second level included artificial neural network used for generalizing.

[Age-Related Features of EEG Coherence in Children and Adolescents Living in the European North of Russia].

The paper presents data on the formation of spatial synchronization of brain potentials in 91 children aged 7-18 years living in European North of Russia. We estimated coherence values for 19 derivations (pair 171) in five EEG frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha-1, alpha-2 and beta). We described age-related changes, gender differences and topical specific features of the formation of coherence in the left and right hemispheres, and in inter- and intrahemispheric synchronization.