Reliability of multivariate causality measures for neural data

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 344-358

  Florin, Esther ^a,b   Gross, Joachim ^c   Pfeifer, Johannes ^d   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b   Timmermann, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Directed transfer function; Partial directed coherence; Pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease; Zero and one inflated beta regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIRECT DIRECTED TRANSFER FUNCTION; DIRECTED TRANSFER FUNCTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; SQUARED PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; TRANSFER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79957771922     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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