Can we measure consciousness with EEG complexities?

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 733-742

  Gu, Fanji ^a   Meng, Xin ^a   Shen, Enhua ^a   Cai, Zhijie ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Complexity; Consciousness; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY;

MUTUAL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 0037986541     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127403006893     Document Type: Article

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