Self-Organized Criticality model for Brain Plasticity

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2006-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0602014v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Neurons and Cognition

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.028107

Networks of living neurons exhibit an avalanche mode of activity, experimentally found in organotypic cultures. Here we present a model based on self-organized criticality and taking into account brain plasticity, which is able to reproduce the spectrum of electroencephalograms (EEG). The model consists in an electrical network with threshold firing and activity-dependent synapse strenghts. The system exhibits an avalanche activity power law distributed. The analysis of the power spectra of the electrical signal reproduces very robustly the power law behaviour with the exponent 0.8, experimentally measured in EEG spectra. The same value of the exponent is found on small-world lattices and for leaky neurons, indicating that universality holds for a wide class of brain models.

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