Criticality as a signature of healthy neural systems: multi-scale experimental and computational studies

• Main Author: Dietmar Plenz (auth)
• Other Authors: Paolo Massobrio (auth), Valentina Pasquale (auth), Lucilla de Arcangelis (auth), Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Computational models; in vitro; in vivo; network dynamics; self-organized criticality; neuronal avalanches; power law
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Since 2003, when spontaneous activity in cortical slices was first found to follow scale-free statistical distributions in size and duration, increasing experimental evidences and theoretical models have been reported in the literature supporting the emergence of evidence of scale invariance in the...