Three must-read papers for understanding EEG 1/f-ness

[MakotoMiyakoshi]

This is just my opinion. Comments are welcome!

For the E/I balance interpretation,

Gao R, Peterson EJ, Voytek B. 2017. Inferring synaptic excitation/inhibition balance from field potentials. Neuroimage. 2017 Sep; 158 70-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.078, PMID: 28676297

Donoghue T, Haller M, Peterson EJ, Varma P, Sebastian P, Gao R, Noto T, Lara AH, Wallis JD, Knight RT, Shestyuk A, Voytek B. 2020. Parameterizing neural power spectra into periodic and aperiodic components. Nat Neurosci. 2020 Dec; 23(12) 1655-1665
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-00744-x, PMID: 33230329, PMCID: PMC8106550

For the cable theory, I would list Electric Fields of the Brain (2006) by Nunez and Srinivasan, but it is a 600-page book with full of mathematical descriptions. If someone know a good paper, please comment. Marjan mentioned this paper in his post to the original mailing list, which I have never read yet.

Pettersen KH, Lindén H, Tetzlaff T, Einevoll GT. 2014. Power laws from linear neuronal cable theory: power spectral densities of the soma potential, soma membrane current and single-neuron contribution to the EEG. PLoS Comput Biol. 2014 Nov 13; 10(11) e1003928
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003928, PMID: 25393030, PMCID: PMC4230751