Perception and self-organized instability

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Friston, Karl ^a   Breakspear, Michael ^b   Deco, Gustavo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Critical slowing; Free energy; Generalized synchronization; Self organization

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FREE ENERGY; INFERENCE ENGINES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CRITICAL SLOWING; FREE ENERGY MINIMIZATION; GENERALIZED SYNCHRONIZATION; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; VARIATIONAL FREE ENERGY;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHAOTIC ITINERANCY; COGNITION; CONDITIONAL DENSITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYNAMICS; ENERGY YIELD; ENTROPY; ERGOTIC; EVOKED RESPONSE; HOMEOSTASIS; MILLNOR ATTRACTOR; MULTISTABILITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PROBABILITY; SELF ORGANIZED INSTABILITY; SENSORY PERTURBATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIMULATION; SWITCHING;

EID: 84877624432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00044     Document Type: Article

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