A mean field approach to model levels of consciousness from EEG recordings

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/ABABFBMaRDI QIDQ5856898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Alberto Javarone, Olivia Gosseries, D. Marinazzo, Quentin Noirhomme, Vincent Bonhomme, Steven Laureys, Srivas Chennu

Publication date 30 March 2021

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02425

zbMATH Keywords

classical phase transitionscomputational neuroscience

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55)

Abstract: We introduce a mean-field model for analysing the dynamics of human consciousness. In particular, inspired by the Giulio Tononi's Integrated Information Theory and by the Max Tegmark's representation of consciousness, we study order-disorder phase transitions on Curie-Weiss models generated by processing EEG signals. The latter have been recorded on healthy individuals undergoing deep sedation. Then, we implement a machine learning tool for classifying mental states using, as input, the critical temperatures computed in the Curie-Weiss models. Results show that, by the proposed method, it is possible to discriminate between states of awareness and states of deep sedation. Besides, we identify a state space for representing the path between mental states, whose dimensions correspond to critical temperatures computed over different frequency bands of the EEG signal. Beyond possible theoretical implications in the study of human consciousness, resulting from our model, we deem relevant to emphasise that the proposed method could be exploited for clinical applications.

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