Reduced predictable information in brain signals in autism pectrum disorder

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Gómez, Carlos ^a   Lizier, Joseph T ^b   Schaum, Michael ^c   Wollstadt, Patricia ^c   Grützner, Christine ^d   Uhlhaas, Peter ^e   Freitag, Christine M ^c   Schlitt, Sabine ^c   Bölte, Sven ^c   Hornero, Roberto ^a   Wibral, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active information storage; Autism spectrum disorder; Complex systems; Hippocampus; Information theory; Keywords; Magnetoencephalography; Predictive coding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN SIGNAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION STORAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION LEARNING TEST;

EID: 84894030404     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00009     Document Type: Article

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