Table 1.

Method comparison between conventional power analysis and EEG microstate analysis.

	ERD/ERS and TRP	Coherence	EEG micrsotate analysis
Experiment protocol: time	Fixed to a few seconds	Fixed to a few seconds	Self-paced and up to a few minutes and theoretically as many minutes as the experiment can last
Feature domain	Frequency	Frequency	Spatiotemporal
Data	Single electrode	Two electrodes	All of electrodes
Alignment with other neuroimaging techniques	N/A	N/A	fMRI