Causal inference in neuronal time-series using adaptive decomposition

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 245, Issue , 2015, Pages 73-90

  Rodrigues, João ^a   Andrade, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Directed functional connectivity; Empirical mode decomposition; Granger causality; Time series analysis; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DECOMPOSITION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ANALYSIS; CAUSAL MODELING; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; GRANGER CAUSALITY; NEUROSCIENCE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84924972117     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.02.013     Document Type: Article

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