Evaluating causal relations in neural systems: Granger causality, directed transfer function and statistical assessment of significance

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 145-157

  Kamiński, Maciej ^a,b   Ding, Mingzhou ^a   Truccolo, Wilson A ^a   Bressler, Steven L ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MACACA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURONS; SLEEP;

EID: 0035433274     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220000235     Document Type: Article

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