Non-linear behaviour of human EEG: Fractal exponent versus correlation dimension in awake and sleep stages

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 91-94

  Pereda, E ^a   Gamundi, A ^b   Rial, R ^b   Gonzalez J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coarse graining spectral analysis; Correlation dimension; EEG; Fractal exponent; Sleep; Surrogate Data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0345164361     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00435-2     Document Type: Article

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