Criticality in large-scale brain fmri dynamics unveiled by a novel point process analysis

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 FEB, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tagliazucchi, Enzo ^a,b   Balenzuela, Pablo ^a,c   Fraiman, Daniel ^c,d   Chialvo, Dante R ^c,e,f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

^e FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain dynamics; Criticality; Fmri; Point processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866296479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00015     Document Type: Article

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