Criticality Maximizes Complexity in Neural Tissue.

ABSTRACT: The analysis of neural systems leverages tools from many different fields. Drawing on techniques from the study of critical phenomena in statistical mechanics, several studies have reported signatures of criticality in neural systems, including power-law distributions, shape collapses, and optimized quantities under tuning. Independently, neural complexity-an information theoretic measure-has been introduced in an effort to quantify the strength of correlations across multiple scales in a neural system. This measure represents an important tool in complex systems research because it allows for the quantification of the complexity of a neural system. In this analysis, we studied the relationships between neural complexity and criticality in neural culture data. We analyzed neural avalanches

SUBMITTER: Timme NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5037237 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature