Synchronization of infra-slow oscillations of brain potentials with respiration

Abstract

We study the synchronization of infra-slow oscillations in human scalp electroencephalogram signal with the respiratory signal. For the cases of paced respiration with a fixed frequency and linearly increasing frequency, we reveal the phase and frequency locking of infra-slow oscillations of brain potentials by respiration. It is shown that for different brain areas, the infra-slow oscillations and respiration can exhibit synchronous regimes of different orders.