Sleep unconsciousness and breakdown of serial critical intermittency: New vistas on the global workspace

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 32-43

  Allegrini, Paolo ^a,b   Paradisi, Paolo ^c   Menicucci, Danilo ^a,b   Laurino, Marco ^a,d   Bedini, Remo ^a,b   Piarulli, Andrea ^b   Gemignani, Angelo ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); DYNAMICS;

DISTRIBUTION DENSITY; GLOBAL INTEGRATION; HUMAN BRAIN DYNAMICS; INTERMITTENT BEHAVIORS; INVERSE POWER LAW; MACROSCOPIC VARIABLES; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; SPACIAL STRUCTURES;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

EID: 84885178973     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2013.05.019     Document Type: Article

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