A computer analysis of EEG-intersignal reactions during the development of motoric alimentary conditioned reflexes in dogs

Abstract

The background electrical activity of the neocortex in the interstimulus periods at the stage of generalization during the development of alimentary motor conditioned reflexes (CR) in dogs was the investigational object. It was characterized by the appearance of brief (0.1–0.3 sec) trains of high frequencies (HF), significantly exceeding the adjacent initial baseline in frequency and amplitude. The relative variance index which we had developed made it possible to distinguish this EEC phenomenon in the initial realizations of the background activity when they were inputted into a digital computer. It was not possible to evaluate the parameters of the HF chains by means of a spectral correlation analysis. Nonstandard techniques of computer analysis directed toward the decomposition of the EEG tracing into a system of oscillations and toward the obtaining of the corresponding amplitude-frequency distributions (maps) were developed by us for the purpose of accomplishing this objective. It was demonstrated that HF trains were localized in these maps in specific, quite compact regions.