On why a few points suffice to describe spatiotemporal large-scale brain dynamics

An heuristic signal processing scheme recently introduced shows how brain signals can be efficiently represented by a sparse spatiotemporal point process. The approach has been validated already for different relevant conditions demonstrating that preserves and compress a surprisingly large fraction of the signal information. In this paper the conditions for such compression to succeed are investigated as well as the underlying reasons for such good performance. The results show that the key lies in the correlation properties of the time series under consideration. It is found that signals with long range correlations are particularly suitable for this type of compression, where inflection points contain most of the information. Since this type of correlation is ubiquitous in signals trough out nature including music, weather patterns, biological signals, etc., we expect that this type of approach to be an useful tool for their analysis.

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