Communication Efficiency and Congestion of Signal Traffic in Large-Scale Brain Networks

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mišić, Bratislav ^a,b   Sporns, Olaf ^c   McIntosh, Anthony R ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

BRAIN NETWORKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMMUNICATION EFFICIENCY; COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; GRAY MATTER; INFORMATION FLOWS; LARGE-SCALES; PRIMARY FUNCTIONS;

SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84896694845     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003427     Document Type: Article

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