Functional connectivity in the brain - Is it an elusive concept?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 827-836

  Fingelkurts, Andrew A ^a,b   Fingelkurts, Alexander A ^a,b   Kähkönen, Seppo ^b,c  

^a BM Science   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Binding; Brain operations; Brain synchronization; EEG MEG; Local remote functional connectivity; Mental states; Metastability; Neural assemblies; Operational modules; Quasi stationary segments; Structural operational synchrony

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMPIRICISM; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 11844283268     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.10.009     Document Type: Review

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