Functional connectivity patterns of human magnetoencephalographic recordings: A 'small-world' network?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 355, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 25-28

  Stam, C J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Functional connectivity; Gamma; Graph theory; Information processing; Magnetoencephalography; Small world network; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0347914619     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.10.063     Document Type: Article

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