Characterizing the complexity of brain and mind networks

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1952, 2011, Pages 3730-3747

  Zamora López, Gorka ^a,b   Russo, Eleonora ^c   Gleiser, Pablo M ^d   Zhou, Changsong ^a,e,f   Kurths, Jürgen ^b,g  

^a BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTO BALSEIRO   (Argentina)

^e Beijing Hong Kong Singapore Joint Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (Singapore)   (Singapore)

^f HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^g POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain networks; Complexity; Free association; Memory latching; Semantic networks

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

BRAIN NETWORKS; COMPLEXITY; FREE ASSOCIATION; MEMORY LATCHING; SEMANTIC NETWORKS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 80055013402     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0121     Document Type: Review

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