Figure 3. Differential phase shifts of different frequencies. Phase changes induced by a high-pass four-pole Butterworth filter in different examples (black, raw signal; blue, filtered signal). A, Time shifts induced by narrow band filters in the θ (top) and β (bottom) bands, overlaid on the original oscillations constituting the signal. B, Effects of secondary filtration on coupling of θ and γ band oscillations. Traces (i) of coupled θ (4 Hz) and γ (40 Hz) band oscillations, before (top) and after (bottom) filtration (3–20 Hz and 30–80 Hz two-poles Butterworth filters, respectively). Spectrograms (ii) of the γ band frequency phase locked to the θ wave, before (top) and after (bottom) filtration. C, The effects of different filters on identical signals originating from different sources (i): LFP (top) and EMG (bottom; cutoff frequencies: 1 Hz, filtered LFP signal, blue; 7 Hz, filtered EMG signal, green); (ii) dashed black vertical lines mark the initiation of the oscillatory event, identified by threshold (mean ± SD of noise) crossing (right, raw; middle and left, 1- and 7-Hz high-pass-filtered signal, respectively).