Analysis and Visualization of EEG Event-Induced Dynamic Synchronization Patterns in Cognitive Tasks

The execution of even simple cognitive tasks is characterized by the cooperation of different neural networks that are distributed across the brain, and whose synchronized activity generates oscillations of specific frequencies in the EEG [Kirschfeld, 2005]. Thus, in response to specific stimulae, o...

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Autor: JOSE LUIS MARROQUIN ZALETA
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:México
Institución:Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional CIMAT
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:cimat.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1008/654
Acceso en línea:http://cimat.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1008/654
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/MSC/Redes Neurales
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/12
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1203
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/120302
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Sumario:The execution of even simple cognitive tasks is characterized by the cooperation of different neural networks that are distributed across the brain, and whose synchronized activity generates oscillations of specific frequencies in the EEG [Kirschfeld, 2005]. Thus, in response to specific stimulae, one may observe not only “evoked” activity (exactly time locked to the stimulus), but also “induced” activities [Pfurtscheller and Lopes da Silva, 1999] which cannot be extracted by simple averaging, but which represent events that are localized not only spatially, but also in specific regions of the Time-Frequency (TF) plane. These events may be correlated with relative changes in power with respect of to the pre-stimulus condition (possibly due to changes in the synchronization of the underlying local neural populations [Pfurtscheller, 1977, 1992]), and therefore, may be characterized by specific activation patterns, which are located in particular regions of the TF plane, and which may be associated with specific cognitive sub-processes [Marroquin et.al., 2004; Harmony et al., 2001].