Table 5.
Comparison of connectivity analysis toolboxes for spike and LFP data.
| Toolbox | (Cross)- | Coherence | Granger | Phase- | Phase- | Spike- | Spike- | Unique |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| correlation | causality | amplitude coupling | locking value | triggered average | field coherence | features | ||
| Brainstorm | + | + | + | + | + | + | − | STAT |
| Chronux | − | + | − | − | − | + | + | STAT |
| Elephant | + | + | − | − | − | + | + | RSEQ, STD, |
| STTC | ||||||||
| FieldTrip | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | DTF, JPSTH, MI, |
| NC, PDC, PPC, | ||||||||
| PSI, STAT, WPL |
DTF, Directed Transfer Function (Kaminski and Blinowska, 1991); JPSTH, Joint Peri-Stimulus Time Histogram; MI, Mutual Information (Cover and Thomas, 2012); NC, Noise Correlations (Cohen and Kohn, 2011); PDC, Partial Directed Coherence (Baccalá and Sameshima, 2001); PPC, Pairwise Phase Consistency (Vinck et al., 2010); PSI, Phase Sloped Index (Nolte et al., 2004); RSEQ, statistical methods for detected Repeated SEQuences of synchronous spiking (Staude et al., 2010; Torre et al., 2016; Quaglio et al., 2017; Russo and Durstewitz, 2017); STAT, STATistical tools; STD, Spike-Train Dissimilarity measures; STTC, Spike Time Tiling Coefficient (Cutts and Eglen, 2014); WPL, Weighted Phase Lag index (Vinck et al., 2011).