TY - JOUR
T1 - Chaos game representation of human pallidal spike trains
AU - Rasouli, Mahta
AU - Rasouli, Golta
AU - Lenz, Fredrick A.
AU - Borrett, Donald S.
AU - Verhagen, Leo
AU - Kwan, Hon C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements We thank the three reviewers for their comments and suggestions. This research was supported by grants from the Toronto East General Hospital Research Foundation and the NIH to FAL (RO1:NS38493 and RO1:40059).
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - Many studies have demonstrated the presence of scale invariance and long-range correlation in animal and human neuronal spike trains. The methodologies to extract the fractal or scale-invariant properties, however, do not address the issue as to the existence within the train of fine temporal structures embedded in the global fractal organisation. The present study addresses this question in human spike trains by the chaos game representation (CGR) approach, a graphical analysis with which specific temporal sequences reveal themselves as geometric structures in the graphical representation. The neuronal spike train data were obtained from patients whilst undergoing pallidotomy. Using this approach, we observed highly structured regions in the representation, indicating the presence of specific preferred sequences of interspike intervals within the train. Furthermore, we observed that for a given spike train, the higher the magnitude of its scaling exponent, the more pronounced the geometric patterns in the representation and, hence, higher probability of occurrence of specific subsequences. Given its ability to detect and specify in detail the preferred sequences of interspike intervals, we believe that CGR is a useful adjunct to the existing set of methodologies for spike train analysis.
AB - Many studies have demonstrated the presence of scale invariance and long-range correlation in animal and human neuronal spike trains. The methodologies to extract the fractal or scale-invariant properties, however, do not address the issue as to the existence within the train of fine temporal structures embedded in the global fractal organisation. The present study addresses this question in human spike trains by the chaos game representation (CGR) approach, a graphical analysis with which specific temporal sequences reveal themselves as geometric structures in the graphical representation. The neuronal spike train data were obtained from patients whilst undergoing pallidotomy. Using this approach, we observed highly structured regions in the representation, indicating the presence of specific preferred sequences of interspike intervals within the train. Furthermore, we observed that for a given spike train, the higher the magnitude of its scaling exponent, the more pronounced the geometric patterns in the representation and, hence, higher probability of occurrence of specific subsequences. Given its ability to detect and specify in detail the preferred sequences of interspike intervals, we believe that CGR is a useful adjunct to the existing set of methodologies for spike train analysis.
KW - Apomorphine
KW - Chaos game representation
KW - Globus pallidus
KW - Long-range correlation
KW - Scaling exponent
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U2 - 10.1007/s10867-009-9172-x
DO - 10.1007/s10867-009-9172-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 19688266
AN - SCOPUS:77953479152
VL - 36
SP - 197
EP - 205
JO - Journal of Biological Physics
JF - Journal of Biological Physics
SN - 0092-0606
IS - 2
ER -