Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 7, Iss. 2, Apr, 2003, pp. 139-159
@2003 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences

Forcing Function Effects on Nonlinear Trajectories: Identifying Very Local Brain Dynamics

Robert A. M. Gregson, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Kerry Leahan, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Abstract: Effects of imposing a sinusoidal acoustic and visual forcing function at various frequencies onto an EEG process are examined in terms of various indices of the nonlinear dynamics. Conjoint use of four methods of data analysis;

Keywords: Lyapunov exponents, the entropic analogue of the Schwarzian derivative, surrogate distributions, and higher-order kernel analyses in the time domain, is illustrated. Local epochs with unstable dynamics are identifed on very short series