Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)

Integration and segregation in whole-brain networks: implications for altered states of consciousness

Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) 2018 Louis-David Lord

To survive in an ever-changing environment, the brain must seamlessly integrate a rich stream of incoming information into coherent internal representations that can then be used to efficiently plan for action. The brain must also balance its ability to integrate information with a complementary capacity to segregate information into modules which perform specialized computations in local...