Functional brain imaging based on ERD/ERS
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Published on: August 26, 2011
1Department of Medical Informatics, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Medical Informatics and Neuroinformatics, University of Technology Graz, Inffeldgasse 16a/II, A-8010, Graz, Austria. pfu@dpmi.tu-graz.ac.at
Abstract:
Sensory, cognitive and motor processing can result in changes of the ongoing EEG in form of an event-related desynchronization (ERD) or event-related synchronization (ERS). Both phenomena are time-locked but not phase-locked to the event and they are highly frequency-band specific. The ERD is interpreted as a correlate of an activated cortical area with increased excitability and the ERS in the alpha and lower beta bands can be interpreted, at least under certain circumstances, as a correlate of a deactivated cortical area. Spatial mapping of ERD/ERS can be used to study the dynamics of cortical activation patterns. Examples from a movement task are reported.
