Spectral fingerprints of large-scale neuronal interactions

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 121-134

  Siegel, Markus ^a   Donner, Tobias H ^b   Engel, Andreas K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL INTERACTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84856028099     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3137     Document Type: Review

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