Assessing cortical functional connectivity by partial directed coherence: Simulations and application to real data

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1802-1812

  Astolfi, Laura ^a,b   Cincotti, Febo ^b   Mattia, Donatella ^b   Marciani, M G ^b,c   Baccalà, Luis A ^d   De Vico Fallani, Fabrizio ^b   Salinari, Serenella ^a   Ursino, Mauro ^e   Zavaglia, Melissa ^e   Babiloni, Fabio ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foot movement; High resolution EEG; Partial directed coherence

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FOOT MOVEMENT; HIGH-RESOLUTION EEG; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE;

FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33747853482     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.873692     Document Type: Article

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