Spectra

Every channel's power spectrum from the clean segments of this recording. Flatten it to see what is genuine oscillation rather than 1/f background.

View Highlight

Click a channel to isolate it. Shaded bands mark delta, theta, alpha, beta and gamma.

Five-band composition per channel, as a share of that channel's total 1–45 Hz power.

Topography

Metric

Values for this recording only. Hover an electrode for the exact number.

Across the session

Posterior alpha center frequency in two-minute windows, five-window rolling median. The dashed line is this recording's own median.

Band

Band power per channel in two-minute windows, log scale. Posterior channels in warm colors, frontal in cool, temporal gray. This is the raw motion behind every summary number above.

Distribution of those window-level alpha frequencies. A narrow distribution means a stable peak frequency; a broad one means the rhythm wandered.

Spatial phase structure

A linear phase gradient fitted to the alpha phase across all fourteen electrodes in every clean 60-second window: its gradient vector k (direction and steepness), how well a single gradient explains the phase field (R²), and whether the field is closer to a fixed 0/π pattern or to a directional one. Switch bands to see that the structure belongs to alpha.

What these numbers are. These are scalp-level phase-gradient metrics. With this montage they cannot determine a wavelength or distinguish true propagation from lagged spatial structure — the identifiability result of §12; see also §13.

Band

Phase-gradient magnitude |k| (radians per head-radius, solid) and plane-fit R² (dashed, right axis) across the session. Dots are colored by the direction the phase gradient points that minute. Gray bands are the archive medians for psychedelic and non-psychedelic recordings (alpha only).

Phase-gradient portrait: every window's phase-gradient vector (k_x, k_y), colored from early (blue) to late (orange). Nose up. The bold arrow is the fit-weighted mean; its length is the direction consistency.

The leading spatial mode of this band — the pattern the fourteen channels co-vary in most strongly, as a scalp map. A single broad lobe is a standing pattern; a front–back gradient is a directional phase pattern, which this montage cannot distinguish from lagged spatial structure.

Standing-mode score (one dominant, phase-locked, stable spatial mode) against the plane-fit directional score (phase locking × plane-fit R²) minute by minute, with the stability of the leading mode below.

Band	Windows	\|k\|	Fit R²	Directional score	Standing	Direction	Consistency	Posterior-pointing	Phase locking

Standing-mode evidence over time for this recording, all bands

The standing-mode dashboard from the original analysis: standing-pattern score, leading-mode dominance, 0/π phase locking and non-directional score for every band across the session.

Photic resonance

This session ran the photic protocol: 30 s dark, then fourteen flicker frequencies from 6 to 16 Hz in random order, 20 s on and 10 s off. Each sweep's driven amplitude and fitted resonance are below; the archive-wide discussion is on the main page.

Sweep

Driven amplitude against flicker frequency (dots), the fitted resonance curve (line) and the dark-block reference (dashed).

Minute	f₀ (Hz)	Grid peak	Q	2f / f	Max SNR

Cross-frequency coupling

Which low-frequency phase organizes gamma amplitude, as a surrogate-tested z-score across the posterior channels. A thalamocortical-dysrhythmia signature would peak at 4–6 Hz; a healthy alpha-gated cortex peaks near the alpha rhythm.

Every metric

All recording-level measures computed for this session, with where each one sits in the archive. The bar shows the percentile among all recordings that have this metric.

Metric	Value	Pctile	What it means
Spectral
Posterior alpha center frequency (Hz)	10.121	62	The dominant posterior EEG wave pattern after removal of the aperiodic (1/f) background.
Alpha peak (whole-recording) (Hz)	10.054	64	Spontaneous alpha peak from the integrated spectrum.
Aperiodic exponent	0.865	27	Slope of the 1/f background; a coarse excitation/inhibition proxy.
Alpha peak above background (log10)	1.252	71	How far the alpha peak rises above its own 1/f fit.
Delta share	0.2392	32	Delta (1–4 Hz) fraction of five-band power.
Theta share	0.1393	64	Theta (4–8 Hz) fraction of five-band power.
Alpha share	0.3885	77	Alpha (8–13 Hz) fraction of five-band power.
Beta share	0.1683	30	Beta (13–30 Hz) fraction of five-band power.
Gamma share	0.0647	11	Gamma (30–45 Hz) fraction — muscle-sensitive at temporal sites.
Slow ÷ alpha ratio	3.750	64	(Delta+theta)/alpha. Rises with low vigilance.
Coupling
Frontal–posterior alpha wPLI	0.1687	84	Long-range alpha phase coupling, volume-conduction robust.
Frontal–posterior alpha PLV	0.2308	73	Phase locking between frontal and posterior alpha.
Frontal–posterior envelope r	0.8358	95	Amplitude co-fluctuation of frontal and posterior alpha.
Alpha harmonic PLV	0.1152	68	Phase locking between alpha and its second harmonic.
Alpha harmonic bicoherence	0.2796	71	Nonlinear coupling of alpha to 2×alpha — waveform sharpness.
Theta→gamma PAC (posterior z) (z)	11.08	93	Surrogate-tested theta-phase / gamma-amplitude coupling.
Alpha→gamma PAC (posterior z) (z)	13.37	86	Surrogate-tested alpha-phase / gamma-amplitude coupling.
Waves
Alpha standing-pattern score (legacy)	10.697	73	How much of the alpha phase field is a fixed 0/π pattern. A scalp-level descriptor from the original analysis; see §12 for what it can and cannot show.
Alpha non-directional score (legacy)	7.202	82	Share of the alpha phase field not captured by a single phase gradient. Legacy descriptor; see §12.
Alpha plane-fit directional score (legacy)	4.985	62	Share of the alpha phase field captured by a single linear phase gradient. It does not by itself establish cortical propagation: lag-free correlated noise produces similar values (§13).
Alpha spatial phase locking	0.4645	66	Pairwise phase locking across the alpha field.
Plane-fit R²	0.2469	61	How well a single linear phase gradient explains the alpha phase field.
Metastability
Alpha state switches (/hour)	51.83	93	How often the alpha spatial configuration reorganizes.
Alpha state entropy	1.642	100	Diversity of alpha spatial states visited.
Clustered wave metastability	0.4074	80	Variability of alpha wave magnitude across clustered intervals.
Within-window synchrony SD	0.1789	38	Moment-to-moment variability of global phase order.
Synchrony
Global synchrony (KOP)	0.5544	75	Kuramoto order parameter across all bands.
Entropy
Spectral entropy	0.8279	25	Flatness of the 1–45 Hz spectrum.
Five-band entropy	0.8858	34	Evenness of power across the five bands.
Spatial entropy	0.9549	57	Evenness of power across channels.
Phase-difference entropy	0.8560	23	Dispersion of pairwise phase relationships.
Complexity
Lempel-Ziv (single channel)	0.7241	14	Signal diversity per channel — amplitude sensitive.
Lempel-Ziv (spatiotemporal)	0.7280	25	Signal diversity across the whole 14-channel field.
DFA exponent	0.8227	88	Long-range temporal correlation of the alpha envelope.
Alpha burst duration (s)	0.461	86	Mean length of a sustained alpha episode.
Alpha burst rate (/min)	11.01	75	How often alpha episodes begin.
Motion
Head tremor index	0.4719	66	8–12 Hz ÷ 2–8 Hz accelerometer power.
Head motion peak (Hz)	6.62	86	Dominant frequency of head motion.
Asymmetry
Right-alpha fraction	0.747	29	Share of windows with right > left alpha.
Alpha asymmetry magnitude	0.3484	15	Mean absolute log left/right alpha ratio.
Asymmetry side switches (/hour)	21.98	87	How often the dominant hemisphere flips. High values mean a dynamic lateralization, not a fixed one.
Alpha asymmetry (R−L)	15.22	23	Signed alpha asymmetry across homologous pairs; positive means right-dominant.
Alpha asymmetry, 1/f removed	6.01	23	The same measure computed on periodic power only, after each channel's own aperiodic background is subtracted. This is the number to trust.
Alpha right/left ratio (×)	1.374	21	Geometric mean of right-over-left alpha across homologous pairs.
Occipital asymmetry (R−L)	7.48	23	Alpha asymmetry at the occipital pair, the archive's most consistent lateralization.
Parietal asymmetry (R−L)	45.04	61	Alpha asymmetry at the parietal pair. P7 is the least reliable contact on the headset, so read this cautiously.
Frontal asymmetry (R−L)	-5.39	18	Frontal alpha asymmetry. Often read as an approach/withdrawal index in the literature; that interpretation is not supported by a consumer montage.
Right/left alpha frequency (×)	1.0000	98	Ratio of right- to left-hemisphere alpha center frequency. Values near 1 mean the two hemispheres share one peak frequency; scalp EEG cannot say whether that reflects one source or several locked together.
Quality
Clean data retained	75.9	41	Share of the recording surviving artifact masking.
Duration (min)	88.1	39	Total recorded length.
Device
Device 'Focus'	0.399	33	Vendor score. Correlates negatively with alpha frequency — treat with suspicion.
Device 'Engagement'	0.542	16	Vendor score. Essentially an inverse-alpha detector.
Device 'Relaxation'	0.465	87	Vendor score, not a validated measure.
Device 'Stress'	0.497	64	Vendor score, not a validated measure.

Per-channel detail

Ch	α freq	α × bg	1/f exp	θ peak	δ	θ	α	β	γ	RMS	LZ	DFA	θ→γ z	α→γ z	CQ	EQ poor %
AF3	10.00	1.36	1.37	6.50	30.2	13.7	38.4	12.7	5.0	20.9	0.677	0.819	18.1	2.7	4.0	0.0
F7	10.25	1.23	1.13	—	30.7	13.4	36.4	13.9	5.7	17.6	0.689	0.836	11.9	5.5	4.0	6.7
F3	10.00	1.54	1.13	6.50	15.8	13.1	52.1	13.7	5.3	15.0	0.688	0.830	6.5	0.3	4.0	15.6
FC5	10.00	1.41	1.16	—	21.3	12.0	44.1	15.6	6.9	14.0	0.724	0.819	4.8	3.6	4.0	0.0
T7	10.25	0.82	0.62	—	23.4	10.6	21.2	23.7	21.2	13.2	0.858	0.780	22.4	2.5	4.0	4.4
P7	10.00	1.41	0.99	—	18.7	9.6	45.9	16.9	8.9	10.1	0.787	0.858	11.8	40.0	4.0	82.2
O1	10.25	1.63	1.18	—	14.4	9.5	58.1	12.6	5.5	11.9	0.708	0.941	10.3	11.8	4.0	2.2
O2	10.25	1.47	1.18	—	12.4	11.0	55.0	15.7	5.8	13.9	0.693	0.878	2.5	3.9	4.0	0.0
P8	10.25	1.15	1.20	—	23.4	12.8	39.6	18.1	6.1	18.2	0.732	0.835	14.9	14.9	4.0	0.0
T8	10.25	0.70	0.99	—	25.0	16.1	25.7	24.6	8.6	20.3	0.761	0.757	39.2	6.5	4.0	4.4
FC6	10.00	1.00	1.24	—	21.9	16.0	34.1	21.0	6.9	20.0	0.722	0.775	43.4	13.4	4.0	0.0
F4	10.00	1.18	1.27	—	17.6	15.6	42.3	18.1	6.4	18.2	0.724	0.810	27.1	2.4	4.0	0.0
F8	10.00	0.94	1.29	—	35.5	15.0	27.1	17.2	5.1	27.4	0.703	0.798	84.2	20.9	4.0	2.2
AF4	10.00	1.26	1.30	6.50	21.4	16.3	40.6	16.5	5.2	22.6	0.692	0.819	28.1	9.5	4.0	2.2

Signal quality

The five-detector screen — device-reported blinks and eye movements (±0.75 s), accelerometer jerk and rocking (±1 s), contact and EEG quality (±0.5 s), robust amplitude excursions and sample-to-sample jumps (±0.25 s) — is described in full in the Methods page. Only clean runs of at least two seconds are used.

Share of the recording removed by each artifact mask.

Non-diagnostic research on consumer EEG. Values describe recorded electrical patterns after artifact screening; they do not establish a mental state, a psychedelic effect, or a clinical finding. See the methods and limits.

Code: repository forthcoming — not yet public · Questions or corrections: outreach@theoscillome.com