Multiple Dipole Source Models for Scalp-Recorded Event-Related Potentials: Example from Complex Visual Processing in the Human Brain

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 62P10, 92C20

Electrical activity of the human brain can be recorded on the scalp. One of the advantages of the electrical recordings is the high temporal resolution by which e.g. cognitive processes can be followed from millisecond to millisecond. It is not uncommon to record simultaneously 128 electrode sites with high sampling rate and thus advanced mathematical and statistical methods are needed to sufficiently process the obtained data. Here an example of the analysis of the data recorded during a complex visual processing task is presented. Using advanced methods large amounts of data can be reduced and new information of the function of the human brain can be investigated.