Coordinated activity in the brain : measurements and relevance to brain function and behavior / Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Richard Wennberg, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perez Velazquez, Jose Luis.

Wennberg, Richard.

Series:

Springer series in computational neuroscience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain.

Cognitive neuroscience.

Cognition.

Medical Subjects:

Cognition.

Physical Description:

xiii, 277 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2009]

Summary:

Increasing interest in the study of coordinated activity of brain cell ensembles reflects the current conceptualization of brain information processing and cognition. It is thought that cognitive processes involve not only serial stages of sensory signal processing, but also massive parallel information processing circuitries, and that therefore it is coordinated activity among cellular networks in brains that gives rise to cognition and consciousness in general. Whereas the concepts and techniques to measure synchronization are relatively well characterized and developed in the mathematics and physics community, the measurement of coordinated activity derived from brain signals is not a trivial task and is currently a subject of debate. Coordinated Activity in the Brain: Measurements and Relevance to Brain Function and Behavior addresses conceptual and methodological limitations, as well as advantages, in the assessment of cellular coordinated activity from neurophysiological recordings. The book offers a broad overview of the field for investigators working in a variety of disciplines (neuroscience, biophysics, mathematics, physics, neurology, neurosurgery, psychology, biomedical engineering, computer science/computational biology), and introduces future trends for understanding brain activity and its relation to cognition and pathologies. This work will be valuable to professional investigators and clinicians, graduate and post-graduate students in related fields of neuroscience and biophysics, and to anyone interested in signals analysis techniques for studying brain function.

Contents:

Correlations of Cellular Activities in the Nervous System: Physiological and Methodological Considerations / Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Ramon Guevara Erra, Richard Wennberg, Luis Garcia Dominguez 1

Synchronization Between Sources: Emerging Methods for Understanding Large-Scale Functional Networks in the Human Brain / Sam M. Doesburg, Lawrence M. Ward 25

Approaches to the Detection of Direct Directed Interactions in Neuronal Networks / Ariane Schad, Jakob Nawrath, Michael Jachan, Kathrin Henschel, Linda Spindeler, Jens Timmer, Björn Schelter 43

The Phase Oscillator Approximation in Neuroscience: An Analytical Framework to Study Coherent Activity in Neural Networks / Roberto F. Galán 65

From Synchronisation to Networks: Assessment of Functional Connectivity in the Brain / Cornelis J. Stam 91

The Size of Neuronal Assemblies, Their Frequency of Synchronization, and Their Cognitive Function / Johannes Sarnthein, Astrid von Stein 117

Synchrony in Neural Networks Underlying Seizure Generation in Human Partial Epilepsies / Fabrice Bartolomei, Fabrice Wendling 137

Detection of Phase Synchronization in Multivariate Single Brain Signals by a Clustering Approach / Axel Hutt, Matthias H.J. Munk 149

Denoising and Averaging Techniques for Electrophysiological Data / Matthias Ihrke, Hecke Schrobsdorff, J. Michael Herrmann 165

Dissection of Synchronous Population Discharges In Vitro / Ivan Cohen, Liset Menendez de la Prida 191

Time-Frequency Methods and Brain Rhythm Signal Processing / Jesse Gillis 225

Complex Network Modeling: A New Approach to Neurosciences / Yamir Moreno 241.

ISBN:

9780387937960

038793796X

OCLC:

297148184