Mind wandering and meditation

Cahn, R., Delorme, A., Polich, J. (2012) Event-related delta, theta, alpha and gamma correlates to auditory oddball processing during Vipassana meditation, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, in press. PDF, Pubmed's link.

Braboszcz, C. and Delorme, A. (2011) Lost in thoughts: neural markers of low alertness during mind wandering. Neuroimage, 54(4):3040-7. PDF, Pubmed abstract. First article published on the EEG neural correlate of mind wandering. First article published on mind wandering during a meditation task.

Braboszcz, C., Hahusseau, S., Delorme, A. (2010) Meditation and Neuroscience: from basic research to clinical practice. In "Integrative Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine: Perspectives, Practices and Research". Editor: R. Carlstedt. pp 755-778. Springer Publishing. Author's PDF, Amazon link.

Cahn, R., Delorme, A., Polish, J. (2009) Occipital gamma activation during Vipassana meditation. Cognitive processing, 11(1):39-56. PDF, Pubmed abstract.

EEG brain dynamics of memory and decision making

Huang, R.S., Jung, T.P., Delorme, A., Makeig, S. (2008) Tonic and phasic electroencephalographic dynamics during continuous compensatory tracking. Neuroimage, 39(4), 1896-1909. PDF, Pubmed abstract.

Delorme, A., Westerfield, M., Makeig, S. (2007) Medial prefrontal theta bursts precede rapid motor responses during visual selective attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(44):11949-59. Pubmed abstract (and free link to paper). First article extracting brain data from eye channels. First article explicitely linking single-trial channel activity with underlying EEG sources separated using ICA.

Onton, J., Delorme, A., Makeig, S. (2005) Frontal midline EEG dynamics during working memory. Neuroimage, 27(2), 341-356. PDF, Pubmed abstract.

Tanji, K., Suzuki, F., Delorme, A., Shamoto, H., and Nakasato N. (2005) High-Frequency Gamma-Band Activity in the Basal Temporal Cortex during Picture-Naming and Lexical-Decision Tasks. J Neuroscience, 25, 3287-3293. Pubmed abstract (and and free link to paper).

Makeig, S., Delorme, A., Westerfield, M., Jung, T.P., Townsend, J., Courchesne, E., Sejnowski, T. (2004) Electroencephalographic brain dynamics following visual targets requiring manual responses. Public Librairy of Science, 2(6), 747-762. Pubmed abstract (and free link to paper).

Debener, S., Makeig, S., Delorme, A., Engel, A.K. (2005) What is novel in the novelty oddball paradigm? Functional significance of the novelty P3 event-related potential as revealed by independent component analysis. Cognitive Brain Research, 22(3), 309-321. PDF, Pubmed abstract.

Makeig, S., Debener, S., Onton, J., Delorme, A. (2004) Mining event related dynamics. Trends in cognitive Neuroscience, 8(5), 204-210. PDF, Pubmed abstract.

Brain computer interface methods

Delorme, A., Mullen, T., Kothe, C., Bigdely-Shamlo, N., Akalin, Z., Vankov, A., Makeig, S. (2011) EEGLAB, MPT, NetSIFT, NFT, BCILAB, and ERICA: New tools for advanced EEG/MEG processing. Computational Intelligence, article ID 130714. Pubmed abstract and free link to paper.

Delorme, A., Kothe, C., Bigdely, N., Vankov, A., Oostenveld, R., Makeig, S. (2010) Matlab Tools for BCI Research? In "human-computer interaction and brain-computer interfaces". Editors : Tan, D. and Nijholt, A. Springer Publishing. PDF, publisher's free link.

Grandchamp, R., Delorme, A. (2009) NeuroTRIP: a Neurofeedback experiment design platform using Independent Component Analysis. IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity. 2009 Fifth International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS, indexed in IEEE), Nov. 29 2009-Dec. 4 2009, 451-457. PDF, IEEE link.

Delorme, A., Makeig, S. (2003) EEG changes accompanying learning regulation of the 12-Hz EEG activity. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, 11(2), 133-136. PDF, IEEE link. First article published that uses ICA to separate brain sources and artifacts in Brain Computer Interfaces.

EEG processing methods

Grandchamp, R., Braboszcz, C., Makeig, S., Delorme A. (2012) Stability of ICA decomposition across within-subject EEG datasets. Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Aug 28-Sept 1, San Diego, CA.PDF proof.

Delorme A, Palmer J, Onton J, Oostenveld R, Makeig S. (2012) Independent EEG sources are dipolar.PLoS One, 7(2). Pubmed abstract and free link to paper.First clear demonstration of the validity of using ICA to study brain sources.

Grandchamp R, Delorme A. (2011) Single-trial normalization for event-related spectral decomposition reduces sensitivity to noisy trials. Front Psychol. 2:236. Pubmed abstract and free link to article. New method to reduce noise in time-frequency decompositions (newtimef function of EEGLAB).

Delorme, A., Makeig, S. (2009) Open Source Programming for Interpreted Language: Graphic Interface and Macro Bridging Interface. 2009 Fifth International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS, indexed in IEEE), Nov. 29 2009-Dec. 4 2009, 430-434. PDF, IEEE link.

Delorme, A., Sejnowski, T., Makeig, S. (2007) Improved rejection of artifacts from EEG data using high-order statistics and independent component analysis. Neuroimage, 34, 1443-1449. PDF. Pubmed abstract.

Delorme, A. (2006) Statistical methods. Encyclopedia of Medical Device and Instrumentation, vol 6, pp 240-264. Wiley interscience. Author's PDF. Amazon link.

Delorme, A., Makeig, S. (2004) EEGLAB: an open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial EEG dynamics including independent component analysis. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 134(1), 9-21. PDF, Pubmed abstract. EEGLAB site. EEGLAB seminal article (cited more than 1000 times).

Sornborger, A., Yokoo, T., Delorme A., Sailstad, C., Sirovich, L. (2004) Extraction of Average and Differential Dynamical Responses in Stimulus-locked Experimental Data. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 141(2):223-9. Author's postscript. Pubmed abstract.

Delorme, A., Makeig, S., Fabre-Thorpe, M. Sejnowski, T. (2002) From Single-trials EEG to Brain Area Dynamics, Neurocomputing, 44-46, 1057-1064. Author's PDF, Science Direct. First article published on computing connectivity between brain sources separated using ICA.

Speed of processing in the visual system

Mace M., Delorme, A., Richard, G., Fabre-Thorpe, M. (2010) Spotting animals in natural scenes: efficiency of humans and monkeys at very low contrasts. Animal Cognition, 13(3):405-18. Pubmed abstract.

Delorme, A., Richard, G., Fabre-Thorpe, M. (2010). Key visual features for rapid categorization of animals in natural scenes. Frontier in psychology, 1:21. Pubmed abstract and free link to paper.

Mace M., Richard, G., Delorme, A., Fabre-Thorpe, M. (2005) Rapid categorization of natural scenes in monkeys: target predictability and processing speed. Neuroreport, 16(4):349-354. Author's PDF, Pubmed abstract.

Delorme, A., Rousselet, G., Mace, M., Fabre-Thorpe M. (2004) Interaction of Bottom-up and Top-down processing in the fast visual analysis of natural scenes. Cognitive Brain Research, 19(2), 103-113. Author's PDF, Science direct.

Delorme, A., Richard, G., & Fabre-Thorpe, M. (2000). Rapid Categorisation of natural scenes is colour blind: A study in monkeys and humans. Vision Research, 40(16), 2187-2200. Author's PDF, Science Direct. A landmark article showing that achromatic visual information is processed faster and before chromatic information.

Fabre-Thorpe, M., Delorme, A., Marlot, C., & Thorpe, S.J. (2000). A limit to the speed of processing in Ultra-Rapid Visual Categorization of novel natural scenes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 13(2), 171-180. Author's PDF, journal's link.

Fabre-Thorpe, M., Delorme, A., & Richard, G. (1999). Singes et Hommes face au monde visuel : la Catégorisation. Primatologie, 2, 111-139. Author's PDF.

Delorme, A., Richard, G., & Fabre-Thorpe, M. (1999). Rapid processing of complex natural scenes: a role for the magnocellular pathway. Neurocomputing, 26-27, 663-670. Author's PDF, Science Direct.

Neural networks and spike based strategies for visual processing

Delorme, A. (2003) Early Cortical Orientation Selectivity: How Fast Shunting Inhibition Decodes the Order of Spike Latencies. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 15, 357-365. Author's PDF, Pubmed link.

Delorme, A., Thorpe, S. (2003). SpikeNET: An Event-driven Simulation Package for Modeling Large Networks of Spiking Neurons, Network: Comput. Neural Syst., 14, 613:627. Author's PDF, Pubmed abstract.

Thorpe, S., Delorme, A., VanRullen, R. (2001) Spike based strategies for rapid processing. Neural Networks, 14(6-7), 715-726. Author's PDF, Science Direct.

Delorme, A., Thorpe, S. (2001) Face processing using one spike per neuron: resistance to image degradation. Neural Networks,  14(6-7), 795-804. Author's PDF, Pubmed abstract. More than 10 years after its publication, still one of the largest and most efficient biologically plausible neural network ever simulated for processing visual stimuli (about 30 million neurons and 300 billion connections).

Perrinet, L., Delorme, A., Thorpe, S. (2001) Network of integrate-and-fire neurons using Rank Order Coding A: how to implement spike timing dependant plasticity. Neurocomputing, 38-40(1-4), 817-822. Author's PDF, Science Direct.

Delorme, A., Perrinet, L., Thorpe, S. (2001) Network of integrate-and-fire neurons using Rank Order Coding B: spike timing dependant plasticity and emergence of orientation selectivity. Neurocomputing, 38-40(1-4), 539-545. Author's PDF, Science Direct. One of the first articles (if not the first) using spike-timing dependent plasticity for unsupervised learning in artificial neural networks.

VanRullen, R., Delorme, A. & Thorpe S.J. (2001). Feed-forward contour integration in primary visual cortex based on asynchronous spike propagation. Neurocomputing, 38-40(1-4), 1003-1009. Author's PDF, Science Direct.

Thorpe, S.J., Delorme, A., VanRullen, R., Paquier, W. (2000) Reverse engineering of the visual system using networks of spiking neurons. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2000, 4, 405 -408. Author's PDF, journal's link.

Delorme, A., Gautrais, J., VanRullen, R., & Thorpe, S.J. (1999). SpikeNET: A simulator for modeling large networks of integrate and fire neurons. Neurocomputing, 26-27, 989-996. Author's PDF, Science Direct.

Van Rullen, R., Gautrais, J., Delorme, A., & Thorpe, S. (1998). Face processing using one spike per neurone. Biosystems, 48(1-3), 229-239. Author's PDF, Science Direct.

Others

Dean Radin, Leena Michel, Karla Galdamez, Paul Wendland, Robert Rickenbach, and Arnaud Delorme (2012) Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments. Physics Essays: June 2012, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 157-171. Journal's link.

Radin DI, Vieten C, Michel L, Delorme A. (2012) Electrocortical activity prior to unpredictable stimuli in meditators and nonmeditators. Explore (NY), 7(5):286-99.Pubmed's link.