Welcome to SyncBox!

A synchronization measures toolbox.

SyncBox implements a total of 9 synchronization measures (6 symmetric and 3 directional measures). These measures computed from the timeseries data can be used to investigate dynamical systems treating them as blackboxes. Our work is largely influenced and organized as per the review chapter by Thomas Kreuz [1]. The following measures are included in SyncBox,

Symmetric:

• Spectral Coherence
• Phase locking value
• Normalized Shannon Entropy
• Conditional Probability Index
• Mutual Information
• Cross correlation

Directional:

• Transfer entropy
• Phase transfer entropy (PTE) and differential PTE
• Directed Nonlinear Interdependence

Feel free to refer to References/Toolbox functions for more details.

About:

This toolbox is built by Pranav Mahajan and Advait Rane, under the supervision of Swapna Sasi and Dr. Basabdatta Sen Bhattacharya. We hope these tools will be useful to neuroscientists, information theorists, physicists, communication engineers and more. Feel free to reach out at f20170277@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in with suggestions or feedback!

References:

[1] Kreuz, T., 2013. Synchronization measures. Principles of Neural Coding, pp.97-120.