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The Complexity of the Brain: Structural, Functional, and Dynamic Modules

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The ‘complexity of the’ brain is reviewed in terms of struc- tural, functional and dynamic modules. Specifically, the modular concept is supplemented by using statistical approach for the dynamic behavior of large population of neurons. The relationship between anatomical cor- tical connectivity and (over)synchronized spatiotemporal activity prop- agation was studied by using large-scale brain simulation technique.

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  1. Department of Biophysics KFKI, 49, H, 1525, Budapest, Hungary

    Péter Érdi & Tamás Kiss

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  1. Centre of Informatics, SCET, University of Sunderland, St PetersWay, Sunderland SR6 0DD, UK

    Stefan Wermter

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y010 5DD, UK

    Jim Austin

  3. Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, UK

    David Willshaw

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Érdi, P., Kiss, T. (2001). The Complexity of the Brain: Structural, Functional, and Dynamic Modules. In: Wermter, S., Austin, J., Willshaw, D. (eds) Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2036. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44597-8_15

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