Unravelling a rainbow: Complex systems methods to transform sleep research. This project aims to develop practical new analytic tools based on complex systems theory and time-series analysis to better

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Unravelling a rainbow: Complex systems methods to transform sleep research. This project aims to develop practical new analytic tools based on complex systems theory and time-series analysis to better characterize and track sleep from large time-series recordings. The project expects to establish the analytical foundation of representing sleep as a quantifiable dynamical process and use it to better understand how sleep varies across individuals and aging, and how it underpins learning and memory consolidation. Expected outcomes include methods and software to detect new types of interpretable structure from complex time-series datasets, and new understanding of sleep function. This should provide significant benefits for diverse data-intensive time-series applications and for how we measure and understand sleep.. Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships. Field: 5199 - Other Physical Sciences. Lead: A/Prof Ben Fulcher