Energy landscape and dynamics of brain activity during human bistable perception

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Watanabe, Takamitsu ^a   Masuda, Naoki ^b   Megumi, Fukuda ^a   Kanai, Ryota ^c   Rees, Geraint ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LANDSCAPE; PERCEPTION; VOLUME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENERGY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; NON-THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907311935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5765     Document Type: Article

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