Quantifying neural oscillatory synchronization: A comparison between spectral coherence and phase-locking value approaches

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Lowet, Eric ^a,b   Roberts, Mark J ^a,b   Bonizzi, Pietro ^a   Karel, Joël ^a   De Weerd, Peter ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTROPY; GAMMA GENERATING SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK; HILBERT TRANSFORM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURAL OSCILLATORY SYNCHRONIZATION; OSCILLATOR; PHASE LOCKING VALUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SINGULAR SPECTRUM DECOMPOSITION; SPECTRAL COHERENCE; TRANSFER ENTROPY; VALIDITY; ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; ENTROPY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84954350113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146443     Document Type: Article

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