Moment-to-moment signal variability in the human brain can inform models of stochastic facilitation now

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 612-

  Garrett, Douglas D ^a,b   McIntosh, Anthony R ^a,b   Grady, Cheryl L ^b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 80052962451     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3061-c1     Document Type: Letter

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