Can a time varying external drive give rise to apparent criticality in neural systems?

The finding of power law scaling in neural recordings lends support to the hypothesis of critical brain dynamics. However, power laws are not unique to critical systems and can arise from alternative mechanisms. Here, we investigate whether a common time-varying external drive to a set of Poisson un...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Viola Priesemann, Oren Shriki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6002119?pdf=render