Choice of multivariate autoregressive model order affecting real network functional connectivity estimate

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 436-448

  Porcaro, Camillo ^a,c,f   Zappasodi, Filippo ^a,b   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^a,d,e   Tecchio, Franca ^b,e  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directed transfer function (DTF); Functional connectivity; Functional source separation (FSS); Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Model order choice criterion; Multivariate autoregressive model (MVAR); Partial directed coherence (PDC); Primary sensorimotor areas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL SOURCE SEPARATION; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME PERCEPTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 59349111170     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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