Entropy measures, entropy estimators, and their performance in quantifying complex dynamics: Effects of artifacts, nonstationarity, and long-range correlations

W Xiong, L Faes, PC Ivanov - Physical review E, 2017 - APS
Entropy measures are widely applied to quantify the complexity of dynamical systems in
diverse fields. However, the practical application of entropy methods is challenging, due to …

The INSIDEOUT framework provides precise signatures of the balance of intrinsic and extrinsic dynamics in brain states

G Deco, Y Sanz Perl, H Bocaccio… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Finding precise signatures of different brain states is a central, unsolved question in
neuroscience. We reformulated the problem to quantify the 'inside out'balance of intrinsic …

Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain

G Deco, D Vidaurre, ML Kringelbach - Nature human behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
A central challenge in neuroscience is how the brain organizes the information necessary to
orchestrate behaviour. Arguably, this whole-brain orchestration is carried out by a core …

MuTE: a MATLAB toolbox to compare established and novel estimators of the multivariate transfer entropy

A Montalto, L Faes, D Marinazzo - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
A challenge for physiologists and neuroscientists is to map information transfer between
components of the systems that they study at different scales, in order to derive important …

Large-scale directed network inference with multivariate transfer entropy and hierarchical statistical testing

L Novelli, P Wollstadt, P Mediano, M Wibral… - Network …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Network inference algorithms are valuable tools for the study of large-scale neuroimaging
datasets. Multivariate transfer entropy is well suited for this task, being a model-free measure …

Directed information graphs

CJ Quinn, N Kiyavash… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a graphical model for representing networks of stochastic processes, the
minimal generative model graph. It is based on reduced factorizations of the joint distribution …

Direct-coupling information measure from nonuniform embedding

D Kugiumtzis - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2013 - APS
A measure to estimate the direct and directional coupling in multivariate time series is
proposed. The measure is an extension of a recently published measure of conditional …

Information decomposition in bivariate systems: theory and application to cardiorespiratory dynamics

L Faes, A Porta, G Nollo - Entropy, 2015 - mdpi.com
In the framework of information dynamics, the temporal evolution of coupled systems can be
studied by decomposing the predictive information about an assigned target system into …

Models of communication and control for brain networks: distinctions, convergence, and future outlook

P Srivastava, E Nozari, JZ Kim, H Ju, D Zhou… - Network …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Recent advances in computational models of signal propagation and routing in the human
brain have underscored the critical role of white-matter structure. A complementary …

Information decomposition in multivariate systems: definitions, implementation and application to cardiovascular networks

L Faes, A Porta, G Nollo, M Javorka - Entropy, 2016 - mdpi.com
The continuously growing framework of information dynamics encompasses a set of tools,
rooted in information theory and statistical physics, which allow to quantify different aspects …