Evaluating causal relations in neural systems: Granger causality, directed transfer function and statistical assessment of significance

M Kamiński, M Ding, WA Truccolo, SL Bressler - Biological cybernetics, 2001 - Springer
We consider the question of evaluating causal relations among neurobiological signals. In
particular, we study the relation between the directed transfer function (DTF) and the well …

Estimating the directed information to infer causal relationships in ensemble neural spike train recordings

CJ Quinn, TP Coleman, N Kiyavash… - Journal of computational …, 2011 - Springer
Advances in recording technologies have given neuroscience researchers access to large
amounts of data, in particular, simultaneous, individual recordings of large groups of …

A study of problems encountered in Granger causality analysis from a neuroscience perspective

PA Stokes, PL Purdon - … of the national academy of sciences, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Granger causality methods were developed to analyze the flow of information between time
series. These methods have become more widely applied in neuroscience. Frequency …

Granger causality: basic theory and application to neuroscience

M Ding, Y Chen, SL Bressler - Handbook of time series analysis …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Multielectrode neurophysiological recordings produce massive quantities of data.
Multivariate time series analysis provides the basic framework for analyzing the patterns of …

Wiener–Granger causality: a well established methodology

SL Bressler, AK Seth - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
For decades, the main ways to study the effect of one part of the nervous system upon
another have been either to stimulate or lesion the first part and investigate the outcome in …

Statistical assessment of nonlinear causality: application to epileptic EEG signals

M Chávez, J Martinerie, M Le Van Quyen - Journal of neuroscience …, 2003 - Elsevier
In this study an information-theoretic test for general Granger causality is used to identify
couplings and information transport between different brain areas during epileptic activities …

Granger causality between multiple interdependent neurobiological time series: blockwise versus pairwise methods

X Wang, Y Chen, SL Bressler, M Ding - International journal of …, 2007 - World Scientific
Granger causality is becoming an important tool for determining causal relations between
neurobiological time series. For multivariate data, there is often the need to examine causal …

On the spectral formulation of Granger causality

D Chicharro - Biological cybernetics, 2011 - Springer
Spectral measures of causality are used to explore the role of different rhythms in the causal
connectivity between brain regions. We study several spectral measures related to Granger …

The effect of filtering on Granger causality based multivariate causality measures

E Florin, J Gross, J Pfeifer, GR Fink, L Timmermann - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
In the past, causality measures based on Granger causality have been suggested for
assessing directionality in neural signals. In frequency domain analyses (power or …

Causal influence: advances in neurosignal analysis

M Kaminski, H Liang - Critical Reviews™ in Biomedical …, 2005 - dl.begellhouse.com
The analysis of multichannel recordings such as electroencephalography (EEG) and
magnetoencephalography (MEG) is important both for basic brain research and for medical …