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A method for estimating long-range power law correlations from the electroencephalogram

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posted on 2023-05-16, 14:53 authored by Watters, PA, Martin, F
Recent research has found long-range electroencephalogram (EEG) power law correlations, indicating time scale invariance. However, the EEG is also rather noisy, displaying short-term decorrelation like white noise - i.e., what is scale invariant at one time period may disappear in the next. The paradoxical combination of short-range divergence, but long-range correlations, suggests that any long-range correlations detected in one sample may be spurious, since they could be related to amplitude fluctuations. To overcome this problem, this paper suggests a new technique for analysing EEG signals segmented by zero-crossings, using detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA), evaluated across two time periods (TIME) and different sites (SITE). A mean scaling exponent across all subjects and sites of α=0.67 was observed. MANOVA analysis indicates no significant main effect for TIME or interaction with SITE, suggesting that the zero-crossing method may be successful in determining the fractal nature of EEG dynamics across relatively long time scales. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Publication title

Biological Psychology

Volume

66

Pagination

79-89

ISSN

0301-0511

Department/School

School of Psychological Sciences

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Place of publication

Netherlands

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  • Restricted

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