Scale invariance in the dynamics of spontaneous behavior

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10564-10569

  Proekt, Alex ^a,b   Banavar, Jayanth R ^c   Maritan, Amos ^d   Pfaff, Donald W ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Criticality; Power law

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; DARKNESS; LIGHT; MICE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84862988235     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206894109     Document Type: Article

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