| Abstract | 第1-13页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-22页 |
| ·Two theories of brain functioning | 第14-16页 |
| ·Choices of localizationists to process brain activity | 第15页 |
| ·Choices of globalists to process brain activity | 第15-16页 |
| ·Stability,instability,and metastability to explain brain functioning | 第16-18页 |
| ·Spatial-temporal patterns at mesoscopic scales | 第17-18页 |
| ·Objectives and overview of the dissertation | 第18-22页 |
| Chapter 2 Studies of Brain Activity at Mesoscopic Scales | 第22-48页 |
| ·Applying the Hilbert Transform | 第22-25页 |
| ·Studding the Amplitude Modulation patterns | 第23-24页 |
| ·Studding the Phase Modulation patterns | 第24-25页 |
| ·Cone fitting method to detect frames | 第25-27页 |
| ·Improved method | 第27-29页 |
| ·Line fitting to estimated instantaneous gradient | 第27-28页 |
| ·Using covariance to detect frames | 第28-29页 |
| ·Comparing cone fitting and improved method | 第29页 |
| ·An application in ECoG recording | 第29-46页 |
| ·ECoG recording | 第30页 |
| ·Signal selection and processing | 第30-31页 |
| ·Results and discussion | 第31-46页 |
| ·Covariance estimation | 第31-32页 |
| ·Frame detection | 第32-42页 |
| Using cone fitting to estimate gradient | 第32-37页 |
| Using line fitting to estimate gradient | 第37-42页 |
| ·Study on frame parameters | 第42-44页 |
| ·Brain states classification | 第44-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter 3 Studies of Brain Activity at Macroscopic Scales | 第48-66页 |
| ·Data description | 第50-52页 |
| ·Data processing | 第52-56页 |
| ·Detecting stable frames | 第52-53页 |
| ·Estimating instantaneous frequency and gradient | 第53-56页 |
| ·AM patterns | 第56-57页 |
| ·Classification process | 第56-57页 |
| ·Results | 第57-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-66页 |
| Chapter 4 Studies in an EEG Database During a Perceptual-Cognitive Task | 第66-90页 |
| ·Experimental design and signal processing | 第67-72页 |
| ·Location of the AM patterns | 第69-72页 |
| ·Analyzing the patterns spatial distribution | 第72页 |
| ·Results | 第72-86页 |
| ·Study in phase resetting rate | 第75-76页 |
| ·Frames location and classification | 第76-84页 |
| ·Contribution of the electrodes to the spatial patterns | 第84-86页 |
| ·Discussion and Summary | 第86-90页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusions | 第90-94页 |
| ·Innovations and future works | 第91-94页 |
| References | 第94-106页 |
| Appendix A List of Papers | 第106-108页 |
| Appendix B Representative Papers | 第108-126页 |
