Chaos reality in the brain.
We review basic concepts of dynamical systems in the first half of this article. In the second half, we focus on cortical transitory dynamic behaviors observed during task-related actions of animals, and provide a dynamical interpretation of such transitory behaviors in terms of chaotic itinerancy.
Tsuda
Ichiro
I
Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0812, Japan. tsuda@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Fujii
Hiroshi
H
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics