Measuring phase synchrony in brain signals

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 194-208

  Lachaux, Jean Philippe ^a   Rodriguez, Eugenio ^a   Martinerie, Jacques ^a   Varela, Francisco J ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Coherence; Deblurring; EcoG; EEG; Epilepsy; Gamma band; Neural synchrony; Phase locking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032757697     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0193(1999)8:4<194::AID-HBM4>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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