The physiological plausibility of time-varying Granger-causal modeling: Normalization and weighting by spectral power

NeuroImage

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 206-216

  Plomp, Gijs ^a   Quairiaux, Charles ^a   Michel, Christoph M ^a,b   Astolfi, Laura ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Dynamics; EEG; Effective connectivity; Functional networks; Granger causality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; BRAIN STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY; CONNECTOME; DIRECTED TRANSFER FUNCTION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRANGER CAUSAL MODEL; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RAT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIBRISSA; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WISTAR RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CAUSALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84901346892     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.016     Document Type: Article

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