Figure 8

Gray-scale maps with k = 15 (subject b05). Phase synchronization should be revealed when solely longer periods (e.g. >20 seconds) of phase coordination are taken into consideration. To check for synchronization, the stability condition was set at k = 15 heartbeats which led to the sparse gray-scale maps in this figure. Only the 7:2 phase and RSA pattern recurrences seem to partially meet the strong synchronization criteria which supports the findings above (see legend of Fig. 6).