Large-scale network organisation in the avian forebrain: A connectivity matrix and theoretical analysis

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Shanahan, Murray ^a   Bingman, Verner P ^b   Shimizu, Toru ^c   Wild, Martin ^d   Güntürkün, Onur ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CONNECTIVITY; COGNITIVE CAPACITY; CONNECTIVITY MATRIX; CORTICAL LAYERS; INFORMATION FLOWS; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; MAMMALIAN BRAIN; WIRING DIAGRAM;

GRAPH THEORY; MAMMALS;

BRAIN;

APE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FOREBRAIN; GRAPH THEORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MACACA; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 84879147080     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00089     Document Type: Article

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