Cortical dynamics revisited

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 616-626

  Singer, Wolf ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

^c FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Nonlinear dynamics; Oscillations; Reservoir computing; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL NETWORK; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; INTERCONNECTED NETWORK; OSCILLATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; RESERVOIR COMPUTING; SYNCHRONY;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA PROCESSING;

DYNAMICS;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL INTERACTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRATING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; REST; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLATIONS; RESERVOIR COMPUTING; SYNCHRONY;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84888861808     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.09.006     Document Type: Review

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