Nonlinear brain dynamics as macroscopic manifestation of underlying many-body field dynamics

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-118

  Freeman, Walter J ^a   Vitiello, Giuseppe ^b  

^a University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boson condensate; Conditioned stimulus; EEG; Neocortex; Nonlinear brain dynamics; Perception; Phase transition; Quantum field theory; Spontaneous breakdown of symmetry; Wave packet

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646077189     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2006.02.001     Document Type: Review

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