Tatiana A Engel1,2, Nicholas A Steinmetz3, Marc A Gieselmann4

  • 1Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. tatiana.engel@stanford.edu.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 10, 2016
PubMed
概括

大脑活动自发地在活跃 (开启) 和不活跃 (关闭) 状态之间转移. 这些神经动态, 特别是在视觉皮层, 影响选择性注意力和预测行为表现.

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