Hierarchical dynamics of informational patterns and decision-making.

ABSTRACT: Traditional studies on the interaction of cognitive functions in healthy and disordered brains have used the analyses of the connectivity of several specialized brain networks-the functional connectome. However, emerging evidence suggests that both brain networks and functional spontaneous brain-wide network communication are intrinsically dynamic. In the light of studies investigating the cooperation between different cognitive functions, we consider here the dynamics of hierarchical networks in cognitive space. We show, using an example of behavioural decision-making based on sequential episodic memory, how the description of metastable pattern dynamics underlying basic cognitive processes helps to understand and predict complex processes like sequential episodic memory recall and compet

SUBMITTER: Varona P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4920316 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature