What kind of noise is brain noise: Anomalous scaling behavior of the resting brain activity fluctuations

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 JUL, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fraiman, Daniel ^a,b   Chialvo, Dante R ^a,c,d  

^a Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas ^*  (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

^c FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain noise; Correlations length; Criticality; Fmri; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866463827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00307     Document Type: Article

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