Site scores reduced alpha-beta role error at omitted links in SEEG and MEG; EEG gains did not pass a fixed reference test
Can one score per recorded site predict alpha-beta coupling roles at omitted links? We tested a fixed graph model on public resting human SEEG and MEG derivatives. Twelve SEEG patients formed the development set. The test reserved 47 other patients and all 19 MEG people, with 27 MEG records combined within person. Each link target was the difference between its two phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) frequency roles. A local-coupling baseline and five link folds controlled model fitting. Adding PAC site scores reduced baseline error by a mean 13.96% in SEEG (pointwise 95% bootstrap interval 11.03 to 17.24) and 8.55% in MEG (5.42 to 11.98). Gains and gains above released shift-reference gains were positive in 46/47 and 19/19 people. The two-modality rule passed after correction for two model claims (Holm p=0.000003815). Reversing phase-phase site scores did not pass. A fixed external test used new phase estimates in 29 healthy EEG controls from another study. All had positive measured gains, but only 19 had positive excess over the computed shift-reference gain. The stricter three-modality rule failed (Holm p=0.136), despite a positive mean excess interval. A low-local-coupling screen also gave uncertain SEEG gains in 24 eligible patients. A post hoc EEG check kept the uniform lag law at each link but changed lag sharing across links. Mean gain on reference graphs changed from 0.1239 with shared target lags to -0.0237 with independent link lags. This did not change the fixed failure. A common-source phase model gave opposite roles with equal local coupling and no links between observed sites. Thus the evidence supports conditional interpolation of measured coupling in electrical and magnetic recordings. It does not establish shared neural causes, later-time prediction, or three-modality reference-controlled generalization. We preserve negative results, plans, sufficient inputs, source hashes, code, figures and numerical audits.
cross-frequency coupling · SEEG · MEG · EEG · phase-amplitude coupling · graph prediction · reference dependence · negative result · human neuroscience
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