To discuss the salient role of the statistical memory effects in the human brain functioning we have analyzed a set of stochastic memory quantifiers that reflects the dynamical characteristics of neuromagnetic brain responses to a flickering stimulus of different color combinations from a group of control subjects which is contrasted with those from a patient with photosensitive epilepsy (PSE). We have discovered the emergence of strong memory and the accompanying transition to a regular and robust regime of chaotic behavior of the signals in the separate areas for a patient with PSE. This finding most likely identifies the regions of the location the protective mechanism in a human organism against occurrence of PSE.
@article{arxiv.physics/0611285,
title = {Strong Memory in Time Series of Human Magnetoencephalograms Can Identify Photosensitive Epilepsy},
author = {R. M. Yulmetyev and D. G. Yulmetyeva and E. V. Khusaenova and P. Hänggi and S. Shimojo and J. Bhattacharya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0611285},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in JETP, February 2007