Robert A. M. Gregson (1994) Thinking About the Unconsidered Chaotic EEG Data
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Psycoloquy 5(06): Thinking About the Unconsidered Chaotic EEG Data
THINKING ABOUT THE UNCONSIDERED CHAOTIC EEG DATA
Commentary on Wright et al. on EEG-Chaos
Robert A. M. Gregson
Department of Psychology
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
rag655@cscgpo.anu.edu.au
Abstract
Extensive literature on the identification of chaotic
dynamics in the brain, as expressed in the EEG's trajectories,
suggests a wider picture than that advanced by Wright, Kydd and
Liley (1993). The model they advance is not incompatible with
chaotic dynamics at the level of mass action, but it does not
address more serious difficulties which arise in the analysis of
real data from the intact cortex. It is not necessary to postulate
symmetrical couplings within networks, and models of cognitive
processes already exist which do not have this formal constraint.
Keywords
chaos, EEG simulation, electroencephalogram, linear
dynamics, neocortex, network symmetry, neurodynamics, pyramidal
cell, wave velocity.
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