Whole-brain modelling: an essential tool for understanding brain dynamics

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MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by European Regional Development Fund ‘A way of making Europe’. M.L.K. is supported by the Center for Music in the Brain, funded by the Danish National

Research Foundation (DNRF117), and the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at Linacre College, funded by the Pettit and Carlsberg Foundations. Y.S.P. and G.D. are supported by a

number of sources: NEMESIS project (ref. 101071900) funded by the European Research Council Synergy Horizon Europe; AGAUR research support grant (ref. 2021 SGR 00917) funded by the

Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat of Catalunya; project PID2022-136216NB-I00 financed by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ FEDER, UE, the Ministry of Science and

Innovation, the State Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund. AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * ViRVIG, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalonia, Spain

Gustavo Patow & Ignacio Martin * Computational Neuroscience Group, Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Gustavo Patow, Yonatan Sanz Perl & Gustavo Deco * Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina Yonatan Sanz Perl *

Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Morten L. Kringelbach * Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Morten L.

Kringelbach * Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Morten L. Kringelbach * Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats

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