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ScaleSpecter first constructs temporal representations at multiple scales to jointly capture transient local abnormalities and long-term rhythmic variations. A lightweight cross-scale attention mechanism then enables interaction between fine-grained temporal tokens and coarse scale-level summaries. Finally, an amplitude-phase-aware spectral modulation module uses learnable complex-valued weights to recalibrate spectral responses and provide frequency-domain guidance for temporal feature aggregation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Extensive experiments were conducted on three public EEG datasets: the Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia (ADFTD) dataset, the Alzheimer's Patients' Relatives Association of Valladolid (APAVA) dataset, and the Two Decades-Brainclinics Research Archive for Insights in Neurophysiology (TDBRAIN) database. These datasets cover classification tasks related to Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and Parkinson's disease. ScaleSpecter achieved competitive and generally favorable performance on most key evaluation metrics. The ablation and visualization results further demonstrated the complementary contributions of multiscale temporal modeling, cross-scale interaction, and spectral modulation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The results suggest that integrating frequency-domain guidance with multiscale temporal representations can improve the discriminative capability and robustness of EEG classification under non-stationary conditions. 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