Letting the brain speak for itself

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 2 SEP, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Werner, Gerhard ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Criticality; Cybernetics; Fractional calculus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866160681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2011.00060     Document Type: Article

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