Empirical mode decomposition a method for analyzing neural data教程.pdf

ARTICLE IN PRESS Neurocomputing 65–66 (2005) 801–807 /locate/neucom Empirical mode decomposition: a method for analyzing neural data a, b c Hualou Liang , Steven L. Bressler , Robert Desimone , Pascal Friesd aSchool of Health Information Sciences, Center for Computational Biomedicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA b Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA cLaboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA dF.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, University of Nijmegen, 6525 EK Nijmegen, The Netherlands Available online 15 December 2004 Abstract Almost all processes that are quantified in neurobiology are stochastic and nonstationary. Conventional methods that characterize these processes to provide a meaningful and precise description of complex neurobiological phenomenon may be insufficient. Here, we report on the use of the data-driven empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method to study neuronal activity in visual cortical area V4 of macaque monkeys performing a visual spatial attention task. We found that local field potentials were resolved by the EMD into the sum of a set of intrinsic components with different degrees of oscillatory content. High-frequency components were identified as gamma band (35–90 Hz) oscillations, whereas low-