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ArticleNature communications2021

Time-frequency super-resolution with superlets.

Vasile V Moca, Harald Bârzan, Adriana Nagy-Dăbâcan, Raul C Mureșan

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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4 authors.

Vasile V MocaDepartment of Experimental and Theoretical Neuroscience, Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Pta. Timotei Cipariu 9/20, 400191, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Harald BârzanDepartment of Experimental and Theoretical Neuroscience, Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Pta. Timotei Cipariu 9/20, 400191, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Adriana Nagy-DăbâcanDepartment of Experimental and Theoretical Neuroscience, Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Pta. Timotei Cipariu 9/20, 400191, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Raul C MureșanDepartment of Experimental and Theoretical Neuroscience, Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Pta. Timotei Cipariu 9/20, 400191, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. muresan@tins.ro.ORCID 0000-0001-7854-3775

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to the Heisenberg-Gabor uncertainty principle, finite oscillation transients are difficult to localize simultaneously in both time and frequency. Classical estimators, like the short-time Fourier transform or the continuous-wavelet transform optimize either temporal or frequency resolution, or find a suboptimal tradeoff. Here, we introduce a spectral estimator enabling time-frequency super-resolution, called superlet, that uses sets of wavelets with increasingly constrained bandwidth. These are combined geometrically in order to maintain the good temporal resolution of single wavelets and gain frequency resolution in upper bands. The normalization of wavelets in the set facilitates exploration of data with scale-free, fractal nature, containing oscillation packets that are self-similar across frequencies. Superlets perform well on synthetic data and brain signals recorded in humans and rodents, resolving high frequency bursts with excellent precision. Importantly, they can reveal fast transient oscillation events in single trials that may be hidden in the averaged time-frequency spectrum by other methods.

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