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Applications of EEG Neuroimaging Data: Event-related Potentials, Spectral Power, and Multiscale Entropy
Published on: June 27, 2013
EEG-like signals generated by a simple chaotic model based on the logistic equation
G Perea1, S Márquez-Gamiño, S Rodríguez
1Instituto de Física e Instituto de Investigación Sobre el Trabajo, Universidad de Guanajuato, León, Gto 37150, Mexico. perea@fisica.ugto.mx
Abstract:
We introduce a simple model to produce EEG-like signals. The model is based on the assumption that the number of active nerve cells that generate an electric field, at a given time, is essentially chaotic. In accordance, we use the logistic equation together with a spike-like function to simulate the neuronal activity processes. With this model, we are able to generate EEG-like patterns, with quite a short time of calculation. Real pre-recorded neuronal and simulated signals, as well as their power spectra, are compared in terms of the main conventional EEG frequency peaks.
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