Neural Plasticity
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 482696, 15 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/482696
Research Article
A Plastic Temporal Brain Code for Conscious State Generation
1Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS - UMR 5508), Université Montpellier 2, CC048 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Received 10 July 2008; Revised 18 February 2009; Accepted 24 May 2009
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