Brain modularity controls the critical behavior of spontaneous activity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Russo, R ^a   Herrmann, H J ^b,c   De Arcangelis, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 84907646514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04312     Document Type: Article

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