Breakdown of the brain's functional network modularity with awareness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3799-3804

  Godwin, Douglass ^a   Barry, Robert L ^a   Marois, René ^a,b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Consciousness; Functional connectivity; Graph theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DEGRADATION; FEMALE; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925597534     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414466112     Document Type: Article

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