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Coupling Functions in Neuroscience

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Neural interactions play one of the central roles in the brain mediating various processes and functions. They are particularly important for the brain as a complex system that has many different functions from the same structural connectivity. When studying such interactions coupling functions are very suitable, as inherently they can reveal the underlaying functional mechanism. This chapter overviews some recent and widely used aspects of coupling functions for studying neural interactions. Coupling functions are discussed in connection to two different levels of brain interactions—that of neuron interactions and brainwave cross-frequency interactions. Aspects relevant to this from both, theory and methods, are presented. Although the discussion is based on neuroscience, there are strong implications from, and to, other fields as well.

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Stankovski, T. (2021). Coupling Functions in Neuroscience. In: Stefanovska, A., McClintock, P.V.E. (eds) Physics of Biological Oscillators. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59805-1_11

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