Scale-free dynamics of global functional connectivity in the human brain

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 97-109

  Stam, Cornelis Jan ^a   De Bruin, Eveline Astrid ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Detrended fluctuation analysis; EEG; Scale free; Self organized criticality; Self similar; Synchronization; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISPLAY SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 2942605726     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20016     Document Type: Article

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