Re-examination of the evidence for low-dimensional, nonlinear structure in the human electroencephalogram

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 213-222

  Theiler, James ^a,b   Rapp, Paul E ^c  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Dimension; Discriminant analysis; EEG; Nonlinear dynamics; Spectral analysis; Surrogate data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029925526     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-4694(95)00240-5     Document Type: Article

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