?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Statistical+mechanics+of+neocortical+interactions%3A+Training+and+testing+canonical+momenta+indicators+of+EEG&rft.creator=Ingber%2C+Lester&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Statistical+Models&rft.description=A+series+of+papers+has+developed+a+statistical+mechanics+of+neocortical+interactions+(SMNI)%2C+deriving+aggregate+behavior+of+experimentally+observed+columns+of+neurons+from+statistical+electrical-chemical+properties+of+synaptic+interactions.+While+not+useful+to+yield+insights+at+the+single+neuron+level%2C+SMNI+has+demonstrated+its+capability+in+describing+large-scale+properties+of+short-term+memory+and+electroencephalographic+(EEG)+systematics.+The+necessity+of+including+nonlinear+and+stochastic+structures+in+this+development+has+been+stressed.+Sets+of+EEG+and+evoked+potential+data+were+fit%2C+collected+to+investigate+genetic+predispositions+to+alcoholism+and+to+extract+brain+%22signatures%22+of+short-term+memory.+Adaptive+Simulated+Annealing+(ASA)%2C+a+global+optimization+algorithm%2C+was+used+to+perform+maximum+likelihood+fits+of+Lagrangians+defined+by+path+integrals+of+multivariate+conditional+probabilities.+Canonical+momenta+indicators+(CMI)+are+thereby+derived+for+individual's+EEG+data.+The+CMI+give+better+signal+recognition+than+the+raw+data%2C+and+can+be+used+to+advantage+as+correlates+of+behavioral+states.+These+results+give+strong+quantitative+support+for+an+accurate+intuitive+picture%2C+portraying+neocortical+interactions+as+having+common+algebraic+or+physics+mechanisms+that+scale+across+quite+disparate+spatial+scales+and+functional+or+behavioral+phenomena%2C+i.e.%2C+describing+interactions+among+neurons%2C+columns+of+neurons%2C+and+regional+masses+of+neurons.+This+paper+adds+to+these+previous+investigations+two+important+aspects%2C+a+description+of+how+the+CMI+may+be+used+in+source+localization%2C+and+calculations+using+previously+ASA-fitted+parameters+in+out-of-sample+data.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F90%2F2%2Fsmni98_cmi_test.ps&rft.identifier=++Ingber%2C+Lester++(1998)+Statistical+mechanics+of+neocortical+interactions%3A+Training+and+testing+canonical+momenta+indicators+of+EEG.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F90%2F