The brainweb: Phase synchronization and large-scale integration

By Francisco J. Varela, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Eugenio Rodríguez, Jacques Martinerie. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2001

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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