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Sentao Wang1, Hongbiao Chen1, Yang Zhan1

  • 1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain Connectome and Behavior, CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Connectome and Manipulation, the Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute (BCBDI), Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Translational Research for Brain Diseases, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science-Shenzhen Fundamental Research Institutions, Shenzhen, 518055, China.

Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
|July 18, 2021
PubMed
Summary

Silent neuronal networks can surprisingly exert strong causal influences on activated networks. This occurs due to high synchronization and lower noise levels within the silent network, impacting information flow in interconnected systems.

Keywords:
causality analysisfunctional connectivityinformation flowneural networkssynchronous activities

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