Decomposition of EEG Signals for Multichannel Neural Activity Analysis in Animal Experiments

Abstract

We describe in this paper some advanced protocols for the discrimination and classification of neuronal spike waveforms within multichannel electrophysiological recordings. Sparse decomposition was used to serarate the linearly independent signals underlying sensory information in cortical spike firing patterns. We introduce some modifications in the the IDE algorithm to take into account prior knowledge on the spike waveforms. We have investigated motor cortex responses recorded during movement in freely moving rats to provide evidence for the relationship between these patterns and special behavioral task.