Scaling in executive control reflects multiplicative multifractal cascade dynamics

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 APR, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Stephen, Damian G ^a   Anastas, Jason R ^b   Dixon, James A ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Card sort; Executive control; Multifractal; Multiplicative; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866257912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00102     Document Type: Article

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