Implications of recording strategy for estimates of neocortical dynamics with electroencephalography.

Neocortical dynamics evidently involves very complex, nonlinear processes including top-down and bottom-up interactions across spatial scales. The dynamics may also be strongly influenced by global (periodic) boundary conditions. The primary experimental measure of human neocortical dynamics at short time scales ( approximately few ms) is the scalp electroencephalogram (EEG). It is shown that different recording and data analysis strategies are sensitive to different parts of the spatial spectrum. Thus experimental measures of system dynamics (e.g., correlation dimension estimates) can generally be expected to depend on experimental method. These ideas are illustrated in two ways: a large scale, quasilinear theory of neocortical dynamics in which standing wave phenomenon occur with predicted frequencies in the general range of EEG, and a relatively simple nonlinear physical system consisting of a linear string with attached nonlinear springs. The string/springs system is integrated numerically to illustrate transitions from periodic to chaotic behavior as mesoscopic nonlinear influences dominate macroscopic linear effects. The implications of these results for new theories of neocortical dynamics, experimental estimates of dynamic properties, and cognitive EEG studies are considered.

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