Scale-free brain activity: Past, present, and future

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 480-487

  He, Biyu J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmic; Brain dynamics; Brain oscillations; Neural field potentials; Power law distribution; Scale invariance; Scale free brain activity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM;

ARRHYTHMIC; BRAIN ACTIVITY; BRAIN DYNAMICS; BRAIN OSCILLATIONS; NEURAL FIELDS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SCALE INVARIANCE;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN OSCILLATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; OSCILLATION; POWER SPECTRUM; REVIEW; SCALE FREE BRAIN ACTIVITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84906786902     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.04.003     Document Type: Review

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