Impact of the reference choice on scalp EEG connectivity estimation

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Chella, Federico ^a   Pizzella, Vittorio ^a   Zappasodi, Filippo ^a   Marzetti, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

EEG functional connectivity; EEG reference; imaginary coherency; network analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRODES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; METADATA;

CONNECTIVITY PATTERN; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL NETWORK; IMAGINARY COHERENCY; LOCAL EFFICIENCIES; REALISTIC HEAD MODELS; REFERENCE ELECTRODE STANDARDIZATION TECHNIQUES; REFERENCE ELECTRODES;

TOPOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASTOID; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SIMULATION; STANDARD; YOUNG ADULT; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGINATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MASTOID; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCALP; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84970027879     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/13/3/036016     Document Type: Article

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