Quantification of phase coupling and information transfer between electroencephalographic (EEG) signals: Analysis strategies, models and simulations

Theory in Biosciences

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-381

  Witte, Herbert ^a,b   Schack, B ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Analytic signal; Coupled oscillators; EEG phase coupling; Synchronization; Time variant analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0346460130     PISSN: 14317613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1431-7613-00095     Document Type: Article

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