Power law scaling in synchronization of brain signals depends on cognitive load

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Tinker, Jesse ^a   Velazquez, Jose Luis Perez ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autism; Bifurcations; Criticality; Magnetoencephalography; Power law; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY ATTENTION TASK; AUTISM; BIOMETRY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; POWER LAW SCALING; SCHOOL CHILD; STROOP TEST; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

EID: 84899674719     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00073     Document Type: Article

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