Conditional correlation as a measure of mediated interactivity in fMRI and MEG/EEG

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3503-3516

  Marrelec, Guillaume ^a,b   Daunizeau, Jean ^a   Pélégrini Issac, Mélanie ^a   Doyon, Julien ^b   Benali, Habib ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherence; Conditional correlation; Effective connectivity; Functional brain imaging; Functional brain interactivity; Functional connectivity; Functional MRI; Generalized synchronization; Mediated interaction; MEG EEG; Mutual information; Nonlinear correlation; Phase locking value; Phase synchronization; Temporal correlation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CONDITIONAL CORRELATION; FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL BRAIN INTERACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; GENERALIZED SYNCHRONIZATION; MEDIATED INTERACTION; PHASE LOCKING VALUE; PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; TEMPORAL CORRELATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 27644530248     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2005.853211     Document Type: Article

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