Subsampled Directed-Percolation Models Explain Scaling Relations Experimentally Observed in the Brain.

ABSTRACT: Recent experimental results on spike avalanches measured in the urethane-anesthetized rat cortex have revealed scaling relations that indicate a phase transition at a specific level of cortical firing rate variability. The scaling relations point to critical exponents whose values differ from those of a branching process, which has been the canonical model employed to understand brain criticality. This suggested that a different model, with a different phase transition, might be required to explain the data. Here we show that this is not necessarily the case. By employing two different models belonging to the same universality class as the branching process (mean-field directed percolation) and treating the simulation data exactly like experimental data, we reproduce most of the experiment

SUBMITTER: Carvalho TTA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7843423 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature