A computational role for bistability and traveling waves in motor cortex

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Heitmann, Stewart ^a,b   Gong, Pulin ^c,d   Breakspear, Michael ^a,b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BLACK DOG INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d University of Sydney   (Australia)

^e QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beta oscillations; Bistability; Motor cortex; Synchrony; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

BETA OSCILLATIONS; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIALS; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION; SYNCHRONOUS OSCILLATION; SYNCHRONY; TRAVELING WAVE;

TOPOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BETA OSCILLATION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTER SURROUND COUPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BISTABILITY; CORTICAL SPATIOTEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OSCILLATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PLANAR WAVE; PSEUDO FIELD POTENTIAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 84866779039     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00067     Document Type: Article

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