title: Interpreting the electrophysiological power spectrum.
abstract: Recent experimental findings suggest that there may be rich physiological information embedded within the power spectrum of neurophysiological recordings, which, in addition to power in specific oscillatory frequencies, can be extracted with the appropriate model. This article reviews previous empirical and modeling results, as well as the canonical power law model that is often used to describe the power spectrum. In addition, a modified power law model with parameters estimating synaptic and spiking contributions is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California rigao@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D058256:Brain Waves; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological
keywords: electrophysiology; local field potential; power law; power spectrum