Avalanche analysis from multielectrode ensemble recordings in cat, monkey, and human cerebral cortex during wakefulness and sleep

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 AUG, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-18

  Dehghani, Nima ^a   Hatsopoulos, Nicholas G ^b   Haga, Zach D ^b   Parker, Rebecca A ^c   Greger, Bradley ^d   Halgren, Eric ^e   Cash, Sydney S ^f   Destexhe, Alain ^a  

^a Unite de Neurosciences Integratives et Computationnelles   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain dynamics; Complexity; Criticality; Power law; Scale invariance; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866478810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00302     Document Type: Article

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