TY - JOUR A1 - Tass, Peter A1 - Rosenblum, Michael A1 - Weule, J. A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Pikovskij, Arkadij A1 - Volkmann, J. A1 - Schnitzler, A. A1 - Freund, H.-J. T1 - Detection of n:m phase locking from noisy data : application to magnetoencephalography N2 - We use the concept of phase synchronization for the analysis of noisy nonstationary bivariate data. Phase synchronization is understood in a statistical sense as an existence of preferred values of the phase difference, and two techniques are proposed for a reliable detection of synchronous epochs. These methods are applied to magnetoencephalograms and records of muscle activity of a Parkinsonian patient. We reveal that Y1 - 1998 ER -