Modular and hierarchically modular organization of brain networks

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages

  Meunier, David ^a   Lambiotte, Renaud ^b   Bullmore, Edward T ^c  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortex; Fractal; Graph; Near decomposability; Partition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955471193     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2010.00200     Document Type: Review

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