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Table 3 Changes of inter-cerebral phase-locking values (ΔPLV α and ΔPLV β) from early to middle and from early to late pedal stages

From: Resistance-induced brain activity changes during cycle ergometer exercises

Inter-cerebral pairs

ΔPLV α

Δ PLV β

Middle - Early

Late - Early

Middle - Early

Late - Early

C3-Cz

Low-intensity

0.044 (0.186)

0.012 (0.247)

0.026 (0.208)

0.033 (0.140)

High-intensity

0.023 (0.073)

0.025 (0.170)

−0.034 (0.036)

0.052 (0.111)

p-value

0.5004

0.8544

0.2616

0.0333*

z-score

0.765

0.051

−1.070

2.090

Effect size, ρ

0.171

0.011

−0.239

0.467

P3-Pz

Low-intensity

0.017 (0.092)

0.005 (0.112)

−0.028 (0.087)

−0.026 (0.086)

High-intensity

−0.028 (0.131)

0.002 (0.068)

0.004 (0.162)

0.040 (0.155)

p-value

0.7840

0.4312

0.0091*

0.0412*

z-score

−0.051

0.561

2.497

1.886

Effect size, ρ

−0.011

0.125

0.558

0.422

P3-P4

Low-intensity

−0.012 (0.148)

−0.029 (0.121)

− 0.065 (0.097)

−0.082 (0.084)

High-intensity

0.037 (0.259)

0.054 (0.250)

−0.054 (0.149)

0.019 (0.127)

p-value

0.9261

0.0165*

0.7766

0.0147*

z-score

−0.255

2.293

0.153

2.293

Effect size, ρ

−0.057

0.513

0.034

0.513

  1. PLV changes (Middle - Early, Late - Early) are represented as median (interquartile range). ΔPLVα and ΔPLVβ are the changes in the alpha- and beta-band PLV between pedal stages. The paired permutation test is used to compare the distributions of PLV changes between low- and high-resistance exercises, where the mark * indicates a significance level of p < 0.05. The effect size is reported as the correlation coefficient ρ based on the Wilcoxon signed-rank test