Nonstationary nature of the brain activity as revealed by EEG/MEG: Methodological, practical and conceptual challenges

Signal Processing

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2190-2212

  Kaplan, Alexander Ya ^a   Fingelkurts, Andrew A ^b,c   Fingelkurts, Alexander A ^b,c   Borisov, Sergei V ^a,d   Darkhovsky, Boris S ^e  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b BM Science   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythm; Brain; Cognitive functions; MEG EEG; Metastability; Microstates; Nonstationary processes; Quasi stationarity segments; Structural synchrony

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; STABILITY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; MEG/EEG; MICROSTATES; NONSTATIONARY PROCESSES; QUASI-STATIONARITY SEGMENTS; STRUCTURAL SYNCHRONY;

BRAIN;

EID: 25844507980     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.07.010     Document Type: Article

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