{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/care-rcortex-a-matlab-toolbox-for-the","title":"CARE-rCortex: a Matlab toolbox for the analysis of CArdio-REspiratory-related activity in the Cortex","arxiv_id":"1805.08646","date":"2018-10-12","proceeding":null,"authors":[],"abstract":"Background: Although cardio-respiratory (CR) system is generally controlled\nby the autonomic nervous system, interactions between the cortex and these\nprimary functions are receiving an increasing interest in neurosciences. New\nmethod: In general, the timing of such internally paced events (e.g. heartbeats\nor respiratory cycles) may display a large variability. For the analysis of\nsuch CR event-related EEG potentials, a baseline must be correctly associated\nto each cycle of detected events. The open-source toolbox CARE-rCortex provides\nan easy-to-use interface to detect CR events, define baselines, and analyse in\ntime-frequency (TF) domain the CR-based EEG potentials. Results: CARE-rCortex\nprovides some practical tools to detect and validate these CR events. Users can\ndefine baselines time-locked to a phase of respiratory or heart cycle. A\nstatistical test has also been integrated to highlight significant points of\nthe TF maps with respect to the baseline. We illustrate the use of CARE-rCortex\nwith the analysis of two real cardio-respiratory datasets. Comparison with\nexisting methods: Compared to other open-source toolboxes, CARE-rCortex allows\nusers to automatically detect CR events, to define and check baselines for each\ndetected event. Different baseline normalizations can be used in the TF\nanalysis of EEG epochs. Conclusions: The analysis of CR-related EEG activities\ncould provide valuable information about cognitive or pathological brain\nstates. CARE-rCortex runs in Matlab as a plug-in of the EEGLAB software, and it\nis publicly available at https://github.com/FannyGrosselin/CARE-rCortex.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08646v4","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.08646v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"care-rcortex-a-matlab-toolbox-for-the","repo_url":"https://github.com/FannyGrosselin/CARE-rCortex","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"eeg-1","task_name":"EEG"},{"task_slug":"eeg","task_name":"Electroencephalogram (EEG)"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}