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Is there chaos in the brain?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Hubert Preissl
Affiliation:
Institut fuer Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie, Universitaet Tuebingen, Gartenstrasse 29, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany. hubert.prelssl@uni-tuebingen.cle
Werner Lutzenberger
Affiliation:
Institut fuer Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie, Universitaet Tuebingen, Gartenstrasse 29, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany. hubert.prelssl@uni-tuebingen.cle
Friedemann Pulvermüller
Affiliation:
Institut fuer Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie, Universitaet Tuebingen, Gartenstrasse 29, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany. hubert.prelssl@uni-tuebingen.cle

Abstract

For some years there has been a controversy about whether brain state variables such as EEG or neuronal spike trains exhibit chaotic behaviour. Wright & Liley claim that the local dynamics measured by spike trains or local field potentials exhibit chaotic behaviour, but global measures like EEG should be governed by linear dynamics. We propose a different scheme. Based on simulation studies and various experiments, we suggest that the pointwise dimension of EEG time series may provide some valuable information about underlying neuronal generators.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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