Being critical of criticality in the brain

Relatively recent work has reported that networks of neurons can produce avalanches of activity whose sizes follow a power law distribution. This suggests that these networks may be operating near a critical point, poised between a phase where activity rapidly dies out and a phase where activity is...

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Главные авторы: John M Beggs, Nicholas eTimme
Формат: Статья
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-06-01
Серии:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online-ссылка:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2012.00163/full