Detection of neural correlates of self-paced motor activity using empirical mode decomposition phase locking analysis

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-70

  Sweeney Reed, Catherine Marie ^a,b   Nasuto, Slawomir Jaroslaw ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EEG; Empirical mode decomposition; Finger tap; Phase synchrony; Time frequency

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION PHASE LOCKING ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINGERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERIODICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349247679     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.07.023     Document Type: Article

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