Multivariate information-theoretic measures reveal directed information structure and task relevant changes in fMRI connectivity

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-107

  Lizier, Joseph T ^a,b   Heinzle, Jakob ^c   Horstmann, Annette ^d   Haynes, John Dylan ^c,d,e   Prokopenko, Mikhail ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Information structure; Information transfer; Motor cortex; Movement planning; Neural computation; Transfer entropy; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING;

BRAIN REGIONS; DIRECTED INFORMATION; FMRI; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; MOTOR-CORTEX; MOVEMENT PLANNING; NEURAL COMPUTATIONS; TRANSFER ENTROPY; VISUAL CORTEXES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; DIRECTED INFORMATION; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSFER ENTROPY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 79952283352     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-010-0271-2     Document Type: Article

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