A symbolic information approach to characterize response-related differences in cortical activity during a Go/No-Go task

DE LUCAS, HELENA BORDINI; BRESSLER, STEVEN L.; MATIAS, FERNANDA SELINGARDI; ROSSO, OSVALDO ANIBAL

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS

SPRINGER

Año: 2021

0924-090X

How the brain processes information from external stimuli in order to perceive the world and act on it is one of the greatest questions in neuroscience. To address this question, different time series analyses techniques have been employed to characterize the statistical properties of brain signals during cognitive tasks. Typically, response-specific processes are addressed by comparing the time course of average event-related potentials in different trials type. Here, we analyze monkey local field potentials data during visual pattern discrimination called Go/No-Go task in the light of information theory quantifiers. We show that the Bandt–Pompe symbolization methodology to calculate entropy and complexity of data is a useful tool to distinguish response-related differences between Go and No-Go trials. We propose to use an asymmetry index to statistically validate trial-type differences. Moreover, by using the multi-scale approach and embedding time delays to downsample the data we can estimate the important time scales in which the relevant information has been processed.