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Transfer Entropy and Information Flow Patterns in Functional Brain Networks during Cognitive Activity

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Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2014)

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Most previous studies of functional brain networks have been conducted on undirected networks despite the direction of information flow able to provide additional information on how one brain region influences another. The current study explores the application of normalized transfer entropy to EEG data to detect and identify the patterns of information flow in the functional brain networks during cognitive activity. Using a mix of signal processing, information and graph-theoretic techniques, this study has identified and characterized the changing connectivity patterns of the directed functional brain networks during different cognitive tasks. The results demonstrate not only the value of transfer entropy in evaluating the directed functional brain networks but more importantly in determining the information flow patterns and thus providing more insights into the dynamics of the neuronal clusters underpinning cognitive function.

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  1. Cognitive Neuroengineering Laboratory, Division of IT, Engineering and the Environments, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

    Md. Hedayetul Islam Shovon, D (Nanda) Nandagopal, Jia Tina Du & Bernadine Cocks

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Ramasamy Vijayalakshmi

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  1. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Building, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Chu Kiong Loo

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,College of Engineering, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, 43009, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

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  3. School of Engineering and Information Technology, Murdoch University, South St, 6150, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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  5. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Ren’ai Road 111, SIP 215123, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

    Kaizhu Huang

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Shovon, M.H.I., Nandagopal, D.(., Vijayalakshmi, R., Du, J.T., Cocks, B. (2014). Transfer Entropy and Information Flow Patterns in Functional Brain Networks during Cognitive Activity. In: Loo, C.K., Yap, K.S., Wong, K.W., Teoh, A., Huang, K. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8834. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12637-1_1

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