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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2011

Letting the brain speak for itself.

Gerhard Werner

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Brain and cognitive reserve: Translation via network control theory.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2017
    Review
  3. From Neural and Social Cooperation to the Global Emergence of Cognition.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2015
    Review
  4. A statistical mechanical problem?Frontiers in psychology · 2014
    Article
  5. Neuromodulatory systems.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2013
    Review
  6. From self-organized to extended criticality.Frontiers in physiology · 2012
    Article
  7. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Gerhard WernerDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metaphors of Computation and Information tended to detract attention from the intrinsic modes of neural system functions, uncontaminated by the observer's role in collection, and interpretation of experimental data. Recognizing the self-referential mode of function, and the propensity for self-organization to critical states requires a fundamentally new orientation, based on Complex System Dynamics as non-ergodic, non-stationary processes with inverse-power-law statistical distributions. Accordingly, local cooperative processes, intrinsic to neural structures, and of fractal nature, call for applying Fractional Calculus and models of Random Walks with long-term memory in Theoretical Neuroscience studies.

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complex networkscriticalitycyberneticsfractional calculus

Identifiers

PMID21960973
PMCPMC3178033

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