V K Jirsa, K J Jantzen, A Fuchs, and J A Kelso (2002)
Spatiotemporal forward solution of the EEG and MEG using network modeling
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 21(5):493–504.
Dynamic systems have proven to be well suited to describe a broad
spectrum of human coordination behavior such synchronization with
auditory stimuli. Simultaneous measurements of the spatiotemporal
dynamics of electroencephalographic (EEG) and magnetoencephalographic
(MEG) data reveals that the dynamics of the brain signals is highly
ordered and also accessible by dynamic systems theory. However,
models of EEG and MEG dynamics have typically been formulated only
in terms of phenomenological modeling such as fixed-current dipoles
or spatial EEG and MEG patterns. In this paper, it is our goal to
connect three levels of organization, that is the level of coordination
behavior, the level of patterns observed in the EEG and MEG and
the level of neuronal network dynamics. To do so, we develop a methodological
framework, which defines the spatiotemporal dynamics of neural ensembles,
the neural field, on a sphere in three dimensions. Using magnetic
resonance imaging we map the neural field dynamics from the sphere
onto the folded cortical surface of a hemisphere. The neural field
represents the current flow perpendicular to the cortex and, thus,
allows for the calculation of the electric potentials on the surface
of the skull and the magnetic fields outside the skull to be measured
by EEG and MEG, respectively. For demonstration of the dynamics,
we present the propagation of activation at a single cortical site
resulting from a transient input. Finally, a mapping between finger
movement profile and EEG/MEG patterns is obtained using Volterra
integrals.,