Comparison of fractal and power spectral EEG features: Effects of topography and sleep stages

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 359-375

  Weiss, Béla ^a   Clemens, Zsófia ^b   Bódizs, Róbert ^c,d   Halász, Péter ^a,d  

^a PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b National Institute of Neuroscience   (Hungary)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; Fractal analysis; Power spectral analysis; Sleep stage classification; Topography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SPECTROSCOPY; TOPOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; SLEEP STAGES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 79953032938     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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