Emergent complex neural dynamics

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2010-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/1010.2530v1

Nature Physics 6, 744-750 (2010)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Neurons and Cognition

Scientific paper

10.1038/nphys1803

A large repertoire of spatiotemporal activity patterns in the brain is the basis for adaptive behaviour. Understanding the mechanism by which the brain's hundred billion neurons and hundred trillion synapses manage to produce such a range of cortical configurations in a flexible manner remains a fundamental problem in neuroscience. One plausible solution is the involvement of universal mechanisms of emergent complex phenomena evident in dynamical systems poised near a critical point of a second-order phase transition. We review recent theoretical and empirical results supporting the notion that the brain is naturally poised near criticality, as well as its implications for better understanding of the brain.

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