SCoT: A python toolbox for EEG source connectivity

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Billinger, Martin ^a   Brunner, Clemens ^a   Müller Putz, Gernot R ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; Connectivity; Electroencephalogram; Python; Single trial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BCI SIMULATION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MODEL; NEUROSCIENCE; PYTHON; SIMULATION; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84896924088     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00022     Document Type: Article

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