Figure 5

Result of partial directed coherence analysis during noxious stimulation. (A) Two-way ANOVA showed that the information flow from ACC to SI, and MD to SI was significantly larger than that in the opposite direction in both Session 1 and 2. 'ACC-MD' indicates directed coherence from ACC to MD, and the same as the other regional pairs. Values are normalized to the pre-stimulation baseline level. * p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001, compared with PDC in the opposite direction. (B) An example of the amount of partial directed coherence observed between recorded areas. These PDC values were normalized to z-scores relative to the mean and variance of baseline (pre-stimulation) PDC. The normalized PDCs exceeding 95% confident interval of the baseline were displayed in pseudo colour. Warm and cool colours indicate the increase and decrease in PDC, respectively. The direction of information flow are from the column area to the row area.