Granger causality analysis reveals distinct spatio-temporal connectivity patterns in motor and perceptual visuo-spatial working memory

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Protopapa, Foteini ^a   Siettos, Constantinos I ^a   Evdokimidis, Ioannis ^b   Smyrnis, Nikolaos ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Change detection; EEG; Functional connectivity; Granger causality; Movement planning

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY BANDS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHANGE DETECTION; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY NETWORKS; GRANGER CAUSALITY; GRANGER CAUSALITY ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT PLANNING; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; NETWORK ORGANIZATION;

STATISTICAL TESTS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84924486040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2014.00146     Document Type: Article

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