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Information dynamics view of brain processing function

Information dynamics view of brain processing function
Information dynamics view of brain processing function
We present a methodology for the analysis of electromagnetic (EM) brain signals. In a dynamical systems framework we assume that the measured electroencephalogram (EEG) and the magnetoencephalogram (MEG) are generated by the non-linear interaction of a few degrees of freedom. Within this framework, we then construct an embedding matrix, which consists of a series of consecutive delay vectors. The embedding matrix describes a trajectory on the Euclidean manifold recreating the unobservable system manifold, which is assumed to be generating the measured data. The embedding matrix can be used to quantify system complexity, which changes with the changes in brain-'state'. To this end, we use measures of entropy and Fisher's information measure to track changes in complexity of the system over time. It is also possible to perform Independent Component Analysis on the embedding matrix to decompose the single channel recording into a set of underlying independent components. The independent components are treated as a convenient expansion basis and subjective methods are used to identify components of interest relevant to the application at hand. The method is applied to just single channels of both EEG and MEG recordings and is shown to give intuitive and meaningful results in a neurophysiological setting.
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1094-687X
1617-1620
James, C.J.
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Lowe, D.
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James, C.J.
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Lowe, D.
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James, C.J. and Lowe, D. (2001) Information dynamics view of brain processing function. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE, 2, 1617-1620.

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We present a methodology for the analysis of electromagnetic (EM) brain signals. In a dynamical systems framework we assume that the measured electroencephalogram (EEG) and the magnetoencephalogram (MEG) are generated by the non-linear interaction of a few degrees of freedom. Within this framework, we then construct an embedding matrix, which consists of a series of consecutive delay vectors. The embedding matrix describes a trajectory on the Euclidean manifold recreating the unobservable system manifold, which is assumed to be generating the measured data. The embedding matrix can be used to quantify system complexity, which changes with the changes in brain-'state'. To this end, we use measures of entropy and Fisher's information measure to track changes in complexity of the system over time. It is also possible to perform Independent Component Analysis on the embedding matrix to decompose the single channel recording into a set of underlying independent components. The independent components are treated as a convenient expansion basis and subjective methods are used to identify components of interest relevant to the application at hand. The method is applied to just single channels of both EEG and MEG recordings and is shown to give intuitive and meaningful results in a neurophysiological setting.

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Published date: 2001
Additional Information: Istanbul, Turkey, 25-28 Oct 2001

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Local EPrints ID: 10856
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10856
ISBN: 0-7803-7213-1
ISSN: 1094-687X
PURE UUID: d7845e63-6ebc-4e8d-b5e4-4e6607a10ff8

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Date deposited: 13 Feb 2006
Last modified: 08 Jan 2022 06:43

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Author: C.J. James
Author: D. Lowe

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