AUTHOR=Wang Zhenhua , Liu Zonghua 

TITLE=A Brief Review of Chimera State in Empirical Brain Networks

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physiology

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2020.00724

DOI=10.3389/fphys.2020.00724

ISSN=1664-042X

ABSTRACT=Understanding the human brain and its functions has always been an interesting problem. Recently, a
significant progress on this problem has been achieved on the aspect of chimera state where a coexistence
of synchronized and unsynchronized states can be sustained in identical oscillators. This counterintuitive
phenomenon is closely related to the unihemispheric sleep in some birds and marine mammals and has gotten a
hot attention in neural systems, except the systems of phase oscillators. This review will briefly summarize the
main results of chimera state in neuronal systems and pay special attention to its applications in cerebral cortex,
aiming to accelerate the study of chimera state in brain networks. Some outlooks are also discussed.