The dynamic brain: From spiking neurons to neural masses and cortical fields

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Deco, Gustavo ^a   Jirsa, Viktor K ^b,c   Robinson, Peter A ^d,e   Breakspear, Michael ^d,f   Friston, Karl ^g  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b Institut des Sciences du Mouvement   (France)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e University of Sydney   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS;

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CORTEXES; CORTICAL FIELDS; LARGE-SCALES; LEARNING LANGUAGES; MASS FIELDS; NEURAL MASS; SPIKING NEURONES; STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE;

DYNAMICS;

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROSCIENCE; REVIEW; SPIKE WAVE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BRAIN CORTEX; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 50949089019     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000092     Document Type: Review

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