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Expert-guided agentic AI, run over roughly 124,000 sleep recordings, linked reduced N2 brain-to-brain coupling to later Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diagnoses (hazard ratios 1.48 and 1.38).

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load-bearing objection The agentic AI infrastructure is the real, honestly reported contribution; the headline PD/AD risk association is a single-cohort, reverse-causation-sensitive finding that the paper's own limitations section undercuts. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2607.25175 v2 pith:2T3MSGDC submitted 2026-07-28 cs.MA

Agentic AI-enabled discovery across large-scale sleep physiology

classification cs.MA
keywords agentic AIpolysomnographysleep physiologynetwork-physiology couplingtime-delay stabilitysleep-age modelCOMISAincident neurodegenerative risk
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The pith

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This paper claims that a human-directed agentic AI system can convert roughly 124,000 polysomnography recordings — more than 50 TB of raw signal — into auditable, cross-cohort discoveries, with every reported number traced to executable code. The most consequential specific result is that a one-standard-deviation decrease in brain-to-brain physiological coupling during N2 sleep is associated with a 48% higher hazard of a later Parkinson's disease diagnosis and a 38% higher hazard of a later Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, in the discovery cohort's prospective analysis. If correct, this makes N2 coupling a candidate early risk signal present years before diagnosis, and it shows that a handful of experts can drive five end-to-end studies across a previously under-used archive. The paper also reports that a physiologically structured late-fusion sleep-age model beats an unconstrained early-fusion baseline, with its age residual tied to incident cardiometabolic, renal, and respiratory disease; that comorbid insomnia and sleep apnoea behaves as an OSA-skewed intermediate phenotype distinguished by prolonged post-arousal wakefulness; that REM-bout duration tracks preceding NREM more closely than intervening wake; and that narcolepsy type 1 shows a fast-sigma deficit with centrofrontal theta excess.

Core claim

Central claim: an expert-guided agentic AI environment can turn cohort-scale polysomnography archives into auditable, code-verified discoveries. Its most consequential finding: a one-standard-deviation drop in N2 brain–brain coupling is associated with later Parkinson's (HR 1.48) and Alzheimer's (HR 1.38) diagnoses in a prospective analysis, with cross-sectional patterns replicating in an independent cohort. The same system yields late-fusion sleep-age clocks that beat early fusion, an OSA-skewed COMISA phenotype defined by post-arousal wakefulness, REM duration tracking preceding NREM over wake, and a frontal fast-sigma deficit with theta excess in narcolepsy type 1.

What carries the argument

The machinery is AI Sleep Co-Scientist: a conversational interface directing three specialist agents (Hypothesis, Preprocessing, Execution) over a shared read-only substrate of ~124,000 PSG recordings. Every reported number is bound to an executable script; canonical splits and expert approval gate irreversible steps. The disease-risk result uses time-delay stability (TDS): sliding-window cross-correlation marks a physiological link when the lag stays stable in >7% of windows, giving stage-specific brain–brain and brain–heart coupling networks. The ageing result uses late fusion: a ridge combination of seven interpretable domain clocks that beats unrestricted early fusion.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the reduced N2 brain–brain coupling measured on a single night of PSG precedes the disease rather than reflecting prodromal pathology already present at baseline, and that EHR/PheCode-derived time-to-diagnosis is an unbiased incident-outcome measure — a premise tested prospectively in only one of the two cohorts behind the headline risk finding.

What would settle it

A landmark/lag analysis would settle it: restrict the Cox models to PSG recordings made at least five years before the first recorded Parkinson's or Alzheimer's diagnosis. If the per-SD hazard ratios for N2 brain–brain coupling fall toward 1.0 once the prodromal window is excluded, the claim that reduced coupling precedes disease by years collapses into reverse causation; if the HRs persist, the early-risk-marker claim survives. A complementary check is whether reduced N2 coupling also predicts non-neurodegenerative outcomes — if it does indiscriminately, the marker's specificity is weaker tha

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If this is right

  • N2 brain–brain coupling becomes a candidate early risk marker: a one-SD reduction is associated with 48% and 38% higher hazards of later Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diagnoses, with reduced brain–heart coupling adding an autonomic signal consistent with cardiac noradrenergic denervation in Parkinson's disease.
  • Sleep ageing should be modeled as a multi-domain process, not a single global axis: the late-fusion residual's associations concentrate in cardiometabolic, renal, respiratory, and autonomic outcomes, and disease-specific reweighting of domain residuals did not improve discrimination.
  • COMISA's distinguishing physiology lies in arousal recovery, not respiratory burden: longer post-arousal wakefulness and more irregular arousal organization separate it from OSA, pointing to impaired re-stabilization of sleep as the target for stratification.
  • The NREM–REM architecture findings — bimodal inter-REM NREM duration with a valley preceding first N3, and REM-bout duration tracking NREM more strongly than wake — reproduce across large cohorts and persist under the disordered REM regulation of narcolepsy type 1, constraining models of REM homeostasis.
  • The agentic workflow is itself a reusable discovery instrument: with expert steering and code-linked outputs, a ~50 TB archive supported five end-to-end studies, and the preserved collaboration trajectories are put forward as a resource for training future scientific-collaborator models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The incidence analysis behind HR 1.48/1.38 comes from a single cohort; the independent cohort replicates the cross-sectional coupling differences but not the prospective outcome analysis, so the reproducibility of the lead-time effect itself rests on one site.
  • Translating this marker into a screening instrument is not tested: time-delay stability needs full-bandwidth multichannel PSG, so a practical version would require an EEG-only or home-device surrogate for N2 coupling, and single-night recordings carry first-night effects the paper acknowledges.
  • The paper's observation that long-horizon agent runs drift, and that restarting from a consolidated specification beats continued feedback, implies the bottleneck for wider automation is evaluating claim quality rather than generating hypotheses — consistent with its closing proposal to train future models on preserved collaboration trajectories.
  • A natural next test the paper does not run is whether N2 coupling is modifiable: if the deficit responds to treatment of sleep apnoea or other interventions, the risk association could be examined as a surrogate endpoint in trials rather than only as an observational marker.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

4 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper describes AI Sleep Co-Scientist, an expert-guided agentic system applied to roughly 124,000 PSG recordings across four cohorts, and reports five case studies. The system combines a conversational interface, hypothesis, preprocessing, and execution agents, with every reported number linked to an executable script and a shared read-only data substrate with canonical splits. The five case studies cover: (1) time-delay-stability (TDS) physiological coupling networks and incident Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease risk; (2) a physiologically structured late-fusion sleep-age clock and its associations with prevalent and incident disease; (3) arousal dynamics in comorbid insomnia and sleep apnoea (COMISA); (4) inter-REM-interval NREM duration bimodality and REM-bout regulation; (5) transient-oscillation abnormalities in narcolepsy type 1. The most consequential claim is that reduced N2 brain-brain coupling is associated with incident PD (HR 1.48, 95% CI 1.31–1.67) and AD (HR 1.38, 95% CI 1.25–1.53) in the Stanford Sleep Clinic cohort. The paper presents extensive code-grounding, cohort-flow quality control, and independent reruns for some analyses, together with cross-site concordance for the coupling effect sizes.

Significance. If the reported findings were fully supported, this would be a useful demonstration that agentic AI can serve as an auditable discovery instrument for large, multimodal physiological archives, and the specific PD/AD coupling signal could be an early risk marker worth prospective study. The paper has concrete strengths: supplementary code traces for the headline HR and the sleep-age MAE, mechanical cohort-flow checks, read-only data mounts, and three independent reruns of the sleep-age study. These are real and should be preserved. However, the current evidence base is weaker than the abstract's wording suggests. The PD/AD hazard ratios come from a single clinical referral cohort with no external prospective replication; the sleep-age external validation is unstable across reruns (one rerun yields negative R² on HSP); and the COMISA hybrid-score shift is based on in-sample feature selection. These are load-bearing gaps that prevent the paper from supporting its strongest claims.

major comments (4)
  1. [Network-physiology coupling; Fig. 2e; Supplementary Fig. 8] The headline HRs for incident Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease (1.48 and 1.38) are computed only in SSC. Figure 2e is labeled 'SSC prospective analysis,' and the code trace in Supplementary Figure 8 confirms an SSC-only analysis. HSP is used only for cross-sectional Hedges'g concordance (Fig. 2d), not for Cox models, even though the Methods state that HSP has linked EHR follow-up and the design text says SSC can serve as discovery and HSP as external validation. This is load-bearing: the paper's most consequential claim has no external prospective replication. Please report HSP Cox HRs, or state explicitly in the abstract and main text that the incident association was observed only in SSC. If HSP follow-up is not usable for these outcomes, say so and adjust the replication claims.
  2. [Network-physiology coupling; Cox models and Discussion] Even within SSC, excluding prevalent cases does not exclude reverse causation from prodromal disease. PD and AD pathology can alter sleep physiology years before clinical diagnosis, and PheCode-derived time-to-diagnosis in a referral cohort is subject to surveillance and diagnostic-delay bias. The Discussion acknowledges the analyses are retrospective and hypothesis-generating, but the abstract's 'associated with incident disease' statement overstates the support. Add a landmark or lag analysis excluding diagnoses within 1–2 years after PSG, or at minimum stratify by time since PSG, and discuss the direction-of-effect ambiguity explicitly in the results section.
  3. [Sleep-ageing study; Supplementary Table 5] The main text claims the late-fusion model 'generalized better' to HSP (MAE 8.83 vs. 9.52, R²=0.494). Supplementary Table 5 reports three independent reruns from the same high-level prompt with HSP MAEs of 13.20, 8.51, and 11.46 years and R² of −0.12, 0.53, and 0.10. One rerun has a negative external R², meaning the model is worse than predicting the mean age. This is an internal inconsistency: the main-text generalization claim is not stable across the paper's own reruns. Report the full rerun distribution in the main text and temper the generalization claim, or provide a concrete explanation for why the original run is preferred.
  4. [COMISA hybrid score; Fig. 4c,d] The hybrid score is constructed by selecting the 15 features with the largest group effects in the same dataset and then testing whether the COMISA mean differs from 0.5 (p<10^-300). In-sample feature selection biases both the centroid positions and the resulting p-value; this is not a valid test of population-level OSA-skew. The pairwise AUCs appear to be properly validated and are not the problem, but the 'OSA-skewed continuum' claim in Fig. 4d currently rests on a biased procedure. Use nested feature selection (e.g., select features within training folds and evaluate on held-out test data) or explicitly label the hybrid score as a descriptive, in-sample index rather than a hypothesis test.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Fig. 2 caption] The 'Discovery + replication' label in Fig. 2a could be read as prospective replication. Clarify that HSP is used for cross-sectional effect-size replication, not for incident-outcome replication.
  2. [REM-sleep regulation; Fig. 5c,d] The claim that the Ns valley 'closely precedes' the first N3 epoch is based on the median time-to-first-N3; state this explicitly in the text so readers do not interpret it as a per-IRI distributional claim. The causal language 'putative inhibition window' is appropriately hedged, but the figure caption should avoid implying a direct temporal sequence from a cross-sectional coincidence.
  3. [Methods; TDS quality filter] Table 3 shows that 1,836 SSC subjects were excluded by the TDS feature-loading quality filter. The criteria of this filter are not described in the Methods. Add a sentence specifying what 'TDS feature-loading quality filter' means (e.g., missing channels, failed feature extraction) so readers can assess whether it could introduce selection bias.
  4. [Abstract and Discussion] The Discussion's limitations paragraph already states that the analyses are retrospective, hypothesis-generating, and based on precomputed features. This is appropriate, but the abstract should be aligned with that language; currently the abstract presents the PD/AD HRs and the sleep-age generalization without the caveats that the Discussion itself requires.

Circularity Check

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No material circularity: reported associations are data-driven regressions on precomputed features, with held-out and cross-cohort evaluation.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain does not reduce any central claimed result to its own inputs. The PD/AD hazard ratios (Fig. 2e) are fitted from TDS coupling features and EHR-derived time-to-event data; the feature definition (7% stable-link threshold) and the outcome are independent quantities, so the HR is not true by construction. The sleep-age residual is trained on chronological age, then frozen and evaluated for disease associations on a held-out SSC test set and externally in HSP; the disease regression is a separate analysis, not a renamed fit. The COMISA hybrid score uses in-sample feature selection, but the reported OSA-skewed mean is an empirical summary of distances to pre-fitted centroids rather than a tautology. Self-citations appear as background context (e.g., SleepFM, Stanford Sleep Bench) or as cohort sources (HSP, CDH), and none is invoked as a uniqueness proof or as the sole justification of a central claim. The paper explicitly labels the analyses retrospective and hypothesis-generating; the single-cohort SSC prospective HR and the absence of a prodromal reverse-causation control are validity/replication limitations, not circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

3 free parameters · 7 axioms · 0 invented entities

No new physical entity is postulated. The discovery claims rest on upstream domain assumptions about EHR labels, automated detector validity, and single-night PSG as a trait measure, plus a few hand-chosen thresholds (k=15, REM bout cutoffs, AHI<=50 standardization).

free parameters (3)
  • COMISA hybrid-score feature count k = 15
    The 15 features with the largest group effects are selected from the same dataset used to compute the OSA-shift distribution and p-value, making the group separation partly in-sample.
  • REM short/long bout thresholds = short REM <= 5 min, long REM >= 10 min
    Thresholds chosen for the chain-of-short-REMs analysis; sensitivity analyses are reported, but the specific thresholds shape the result.
  • AHI <= 50 standardization subset = AHI <= 50
    Used to estimate bias-correction and standardization parameters for sleep-age residuals; this hand-chosen reference population affects all downstream residual-disease analyses.
axioms (7)
  • domain assumption EHR/PheCode diagnosis dates represent unbiased incident disease events
    Cox models in the coupling and sleep-age studies treat first recorded diagnosis as event time; no validation of coding completeness or lagged exclusion for prodromal disease is provided.
  • domain assumption Single-night in-laboratory PSG approximates habitual sleep traits
    All analyses use one night per participant; the paper acknowledges first-night effects and state-trait entanglement in the limitations.
  • domain assumption Automated PSG detectors (U-Sleep, MAD, ABED, DynamO, YASA) are sufficiently valid in these cohorts
    Sleep staging, arousals, respiratory events, transient oscillations, spindles, and slow waves are all generated by automated pipelines whose errors propagate into downstream features.
  • domain assumption TDS stable-link threshold of 7% defines meaningful physiological coupling
    The threshold is inherited from Bashan et al. (ref 36) rather than re-derived for these cohorts, but it determines every coupling feature entering the PD/AD analyses.
  • standard math Two-component Gaussian mixture on log10(Ns) is appropriate for detecting bimodality
    The REM-regulation results rely on comparing a two-GMM fit to a unimodal fit; this distributional assumption is not derived from a mechanistic model.
  • ad hoc to paper Direction consistency across channels is evidence of a real signal
    The NT1 direction-based pattern analysis treats consistent effect sign across six channels as evidence even when individual effects are subthreshold; this is a heuristic, not a formal test.
  • ad hoc to paper Only findings that reproduced across agent branches are reported
    The NT1 expert note states this explicitly, making successful replication across LLM branches a validity filter; the full ledger of failed branches is not reported.

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Sleep occupies roughly one-third of human life, yet many aspects of its physiology remain poorly understood. Large polysomnography (PSG) datasets offer new opportunities to study sleep and its links to disease, but extracting insight from these recordings requires substantial expert effort and remains difficult for general-purpose AI systems. We developed AI Sleep Co-Scientist, an expert-guided environment in which human scientists direct specialist agents for hypothesis development, signal preprocessing, and statistical analysis, reviewing intermediate outputs. Each reported result is linked to the executable code that produced it. Across four cohorts of approximately 124,000 PSG recordings and more than 50 TB of raw signals, we conducted five case studies spanning how sleep physiology relates to future disease, how it distinguishes clinical phenotypes, and how sleep is organized and regulated. Diminished network-level physiological coupling during sleep was associated with incident Parkinson's disease (HR 1.48) and Alzheimer's disease (HR 1.38). A physiologically structured late-fusion sleep-age model outperformed an unconstrained early-fusion approach, and its age residual was associated with incident disease across multiple organ systems. Arousal dynamics characterized comorbid insomnia and sleep apnoea as an intermediate phenotype skewed towards obstructive sleep apnoea, distinguished by prolonged post-arousal wakefulness. Rapid eye movement (REM) bout duration tracked preceding non-REM sleep more closely than intervening wakefulness. Transient-oscillation analysis identified a fast-sigma deficit and excess centrofrontal theta activity in narcolepsy type 1. Together, these findings connect sleep to disease risk, clinical classification, and its own regulation, and show how agentic AI can support large-scale, multimodal discovery.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.25175 by Adrien Specht, Andreas Brink-Kjaer, Elisabeth Roxane M. Heremans, Emmanuel Mignot, Eric C. Landsness, Federico Bianchi, Harrison G. Zhang, James Zou, Magnus Ruud Kjaer, Matteo Saibene, Rahul Thapa, Robin Guillard, Umaer Hanif.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of AI Sleep Co-Scientist. (a) System architecture. A sleep expert directs research through an Interface Layer, a conversational application for hypothesis discussion, agent launches, and structured feedback. The interface coordinates three specialist agents: a Hypothesis Agent that generates, critiques, and aggregates candidate hypotheses into a portfolio; a Preprocessing Agent that develops and v… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Network-physiology coupling during sleep across neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. (a) Study design. EEG and ECG-derived heart-rate signals from overnight polysomnography were analysed within Wake, N1, N2, N3, and REM sleep using time-delay stability (TDS). TDS applies sliding-window cross-correlation to pairs of physiological signals and retains links for which the estimated time delay remains s… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Multidomain polysomnographic sleep-ageing residuals are associated with prevalent disease burden and incident disease risk. (a) Analysis pipeline. PSG signals were represented by seven physiologically interpretable domain age clocks: macrostructure, NREM microstructure, REM microstructure, respiratory/oxygenation physiology, HRV/autonomic physiology, brain–heart interplay, and brain–EMG/REM￾atonia. Predict… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Arousal dynamics characterize COMISA as an OSA-skewed intermediate phenotype. (a) Case-study schematic. Clinical polysomnography from the BioSerenity cohort was analysed across four diagnostic groups (Control, insomnia, OSA, COMISA; inset definitions). Four sleep-microstructure domains were first screened on n1 = 31,811 recordings, followed by arousal dynamics with 46 features across four physiological fam… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Inter-REM NREM-duration bimodality, N3 emergence, and REM-bout associations across cohorts. (a) Analysis schematic. 30-second hypnograms were generated by majority vote over 1-second hypnodensity epochs, and inter-REM intervals (IRIs) were extracted, including preceding REM bout (REMpre), inter-REM interval comprising NREM time (Ns) and intervening wake (Nwake), and subsequent REM bout (REMpost). (b) Distr… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Transient-oscillation signatures of narcolepsy type 1. Throughout, head-maps in (d–g) are filled by effect size, Cohen’s d (NT1 − control): red = higher in NT1, blue = lower in NT1, white ≈ 0, on the diverging scale shown in Supplementary [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Code-grounding of a reported quantity: multidomain sleep ageing. The main text reports an MAE of 7.06 years and R2 = 0.686 for the multidomain late-fusion model on the held-out SSC test set. The steps trace that quantity through stage2_iter7_train_clocks.py: the declared inputs and outputs, the single helper that computes all performance metrics, the call that labels each row with the model producing it, t… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Code-grounding of a reported quantity: network-physiology coupling. The main text reports a hazard ratio of 1.48 (95% confidence interval 1.31 to 1.67) for subsequent Parkinson’s disease per 1 SD decrease in N2 brain–brain coupling. The steps trace that quantity through stage4_risk_analysis.py. Line numbers are those of the original script; excerpts are contiguous, indentation is reduced, and the result fi… view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Sleep-stage profiles of TDS link strength by disorder group in SSC. (a) Brain–brain and (b) brain–heart TDS link strength (%) across sleep stages (Wake, N1, N2, N3, and REM), shown for SSC controls and each of the eight disorder groups: epilepsy, partial epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, MCI, PTSD, and MDD. Bars show unadjusted group means, and error bars show 95% confidence int… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Covariate-adjusted TDS coupling differences between disorder groups and controls in SSC. Volcano plots show Hedges’ g, calculated from feature residuals after adjustment for age, sex, and BMI, against FDR-adjusted statistical significance (− log10 q) for each of the eight disorder groups. Positive g indicates lower coupling in the disorder group than in controls, whereas negative g indicates higher coupli… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Supplementary analyses for the multidomain sleep-ageing study. (a) Age-prediction performance of the seven physiologically restricted domain clocks and the multidomain late-fusion clock on the held-out SSC test set. Each panel shows predicted versus chronological age, the identity line (grey dashed) and the fitted OLS calibration line (black solid), annotated with the analytic sample size, MAE, R2 , and c… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Supplementary arousal-dynamics analyses for the COMISA replication cohorts. (a) Four-class classification performance (macro-averaged AUC, test set) across feature sets ranging from demographics and macro-PSG baselines to single microstructure domains and combined feature sets, for random-forest and logistic-regression classifiers. (b) Position of the COMISA phenotype along the insomnia– OSA spectrum: (le… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Replication of homeostatic REM-pressure findings in CDH and SSC cohorts. (a) Bimodality of log(Ns) and first-N3 alignment in CDH-NT1, CDH-NT2, and CDH controls. (b) Sleep-cycle￾by-sleep-cycle evolution of the distribution of NREM duration during IRIs in NT1 patients, split by presence of a sleep-onset REM period (SOREMp) at the beginning of the night (first row, SOREMp+; second row, SOREMp−). (c) Bimodali… view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Comprehensive transient-oscillation scan in NT1. Cohen’s d (NT1−control, residualized for age, sex, BMI, and site) for all six TO features (rate, prominence, duration, SO-phase coupling strength, SO-phase angle, SO-power); each facet shows six channels (rows) × five stages × five frequency bands (columns; band order θ, low-α, slow-σ, fast-σ, β). Dots mark FDR q < 0.05; coloured outlines mark the nine dire… view at source ↗

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