Marginally subcritical dynamics explain enhanced stimulus discriminability under attention

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Tomen, Nergis ^a   Rotermund, David ^a   Ernst, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Criticality; Gamma oscillations; Information entropy; Neuronal avalanches; Phase transition; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DYNAMICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ENTROPY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PHASE TRANSITION; PROBABILITY; SUBCRITICAL DYNAMICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 84925129840     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00151     Document Type: Article

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