MAKING COMPLEXITY SIMPLER: MULTIVARIABILITY AND METASTABILITY IN THE BRAIN
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 114 (7), 843-862
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00207450490450046
Abstract
This article provides a retrospective, current, and prospective overview on developments in brain research and neuroscience. Both theoretical and empirical studies are considered, with emphasis in the concept of multivariability and metastability in the brain. In this new view on the human brain, the potential multivariability of the neuronal networks appears to be far from continuous in time, but confined by the dynamics of short-term local and global metastable brain states. The article closes by suggesting some of the implications of this view in future multidisciplinary brain research.Keywords
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