Version 0.8.1 (2026-04-11)#

Enhancements#

List cohy as a supported method in spectral_connectivity_time(), by Thomas Binns (#403).

Authors#

Thomas Binns

Version 0.8.0 (2026-03-23)#

Minimum supported Python version is now 3.10.

Enhancements#

Add a new CoherencyDecomposition class for decomposing connectivity sources using multivariate coherency-based methods, by Thomas Binns (#193).
Add new plotting methods CoherencyDecomposition.plot_filters() and CoherencyDecomposition.plot_patterns() for visualising the decomposed connectivity sources, by Thomas Binns (#208 and #280).
Add support for computing multiple components of multivariate connectivity in the spectral_connectivity_epochs() and spectral_connectivity_time() functions and CoherencyDecomposition class, and add support for storing data with a components dimension in all Connectivity classes, by Thomas Binns and Eric Larson (#213).
Add support for mne.time_frequency.EpochsSpectrum objects to be passed as data to the spectral_connectivity_epochs() function, by Thomas Binns and Eric Larson (#220).
Add support for mne.time_frequency.EpochsTFR objects to be passed as data to the spectral_connectivity_epochs() and spectral_connectivity_time() functions, by Thomas Binns and Daniel McCloy (#232).
Update the cross-references for relevant functions and classes and make data types more explicit throughout the documentation, by Thomas Binns (#214).
Add support for mne.time_frequency.EpochsSpectrum and mne.time_frequency.EpochsTFR objects to be passed as data to the phase_slope_index() function, by Thomas Binns (#327).
Add a new wsmi() function for computing weighted symbolic mutual information (wSMI), by Giovanni Marraffini and Laouen Belloli (#307).
Add a new function phase_slope_index_time() for computing the Phase Slope Index with the functionality of spectral_connectivity_time(), by Salman Qasim and Thomas Binns (#210).

Bug#

Improve the documentation of the fmin and cwt_freqs parameters in the spectral_connectivity_epochs() function, by Richard Köhler and Daniel McCloy (#242).
Ignore bad channels in computations in envelope_correlation() and vector_auto_regression(), and in spectral_connectivity_epochs(), spectral_connectivity_time(), and phase_slope_index() when indices are not specified, by Thomas Binns (#334).
Fix fmin and fmax frequency band masking for n_cycles arrays in spectral_connectivity_time(), by Thomas Binns (#356).

API#

Add a new min_distance parameter to the plot_sensors_connectivity() function which offers greater control over the minimum distance required between sensors to plot a connection between them, by Thomas Binns and Eric Larson (#221).
Begin deprecation of 2*np.pi as the default value of sfreq in favour of None in phase_slope_index(), by Thomas Binns (#326).
Add a new fdecim parameter to the spectral_connectivity_epochs(), spectral_connectivity_time(), phase_slope_index(), and phase_slope_index_time() functions for more standard decimation behaviour in the frequency domain, by Thomas Binns (#377).
Begin deprecation of the fskip parameter in spectral_connectivity_epochs() and spectral_connectivity_time(), by Thomas Binns (#377).