Mental states as macrostates emerging from brain electrical dynamics

Chaos

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Allefeld, Carsten ^a   Atmanspacher, Harald ^a   Wackermann, Jií ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63849184249     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3072788     Document Type: Article

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