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Decoding network activity from LFPS: A computational approach

  • Mufti Mahmud*
  • , Davide Travalin
  • , Amir Hussain
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Cognition is one of the main capabilities of mammal brain and understanding it thoroughly requires decoding brain's information processing pathways which are composed of networks formed by complex connectivity between neurons. Mostly, scientists rely on local field potentials (LFPs) averaged over a number of trials to study the effect of stimuli on brain regions under investigation. However, this may not be the right approach when trying to understand the exact neuronal network underlying the neuronal signals. As the LFPs are lumped activity of populations of neurons, their shapes provide fingerprints of the underlying networks. The method presented in this paper extracts shape information of the LFPs, calculate the corresponding current source density (CSD) from the LFPs and decode the underlying network activity. Through simulated LFPs it has been found that differences in LFP shapes lead to different network activity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Proceedings
Pages584-591
Number of pages8
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume7663 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Local field potentials
  • brain activity
  • current source density
  • neuronal signal
  • neuronal signal analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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