Table 5. Comparison of electroencephalography (EEG) features during physical and imagined sit-to-stand (STS) in young and older adults.
| Brain area | Physical STS number of participants (%) |
p | Imagined STS number of participants (%) |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young | Older | Young | Older | ||||
| Frontal lobe | |||||||
| 14–17 Hz | 20 (100) | 17 (89.5) | 0.231 | 20 (100) | 16 (84.2) | 0.106 | |
| 10.6–13 Hz | 0 (0) | 2 (10.5) | 0 (0) | 3 (15.8) | |||
| 8–10.5 Hz | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |||
| Temporal lobe | |||||||
| 14–17 Hz | 20 (100) | 16 (84.2) | 0.106 | 20 (100) | 13 (68.4) | 0.008* | |
| 10.6–13 Hz | 0 (0) | 3 (15.8) | 0 (0) | 2 (10.5) | |||
| 8–10.5 Hz | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (21.1) | |||
| Parietal lobe | |||||||
| 14–17 Hz | 20 (100) | 16 (84.2) | 0.106 | 1 (5) | 10 (52.6) | <0.00* | |
| 10.6–13 Hz | 0 (0) | 3 (15.8) | 19 (95) | 5 (26.3) | |||
| 8–10.5 Hz | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (21.1) | |||
| Occipital lobe | |||||||
| 14–17 Hz | 20 (100) | 16 (84.2) | 0.106 | 1 (5) | 10 (52.6) | <0.00* | |
| 10.6–13 Hz | 0 (0) | 3 (15.8) | 0 (0) | 5 (26.3) | |||
| 8–10.5 Hz | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 19 (95) | 4 (21.1) | |||
*Significant difference when comparing EEG features between young adults and older adults.