Multistability and metastability: Understanding dynamic coordination in the brain

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1591, 2012, Pages 906-918

  Scott Kelso, J A ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Coordination dynamics; Instability; Metastability; Multistability; Transitions

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COORDINATE; INVERTEBRATE; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; PERCEPTION; VERTEBRATE;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84857566719     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0351     Document Type: Review

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