ArticlePeerJ2016
Diversity improves performance in excitable networks.
Article in PeerJ, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Brain-wide dendrites in a near-optimal performance of dynamic range and information transmission.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Evolutionary shaping of human brain dynamics.eLife · 2022Article
- FNS allows efficient event-driven spiking neural network simulations based on a neuron model supporting spike latency.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Single-neuron dynamical effects of dendritic pruning implicated in aging and neurodegeneration: towards a measure of neuronal reserve.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Spatially resolved dendritic integration: towards a functional classification of neurons.PeerJ · 2020Article
- Fragility and volatility of structural hubs in the human connectome.Nature neuroscience · 2018Article
- Circuit variability interacts with excitatory-inhibitory diversity of interneurons to regulate network encoding capacity.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Optimized connectome architecture for sensory-motor integration.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018Article
- Communication dynamics in complex brain networks.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2017Review
- Coexistence of critical sensitivity and subcritical specificity can yield optimal population coding.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
As few real systems comprise indistinguishable units, diversity is a hallmark of nature. Diversity among interacting units shapes properties of collective behavior such as synchronization and information transmission. However, the benefits of diversity on information processing at the edge of a phase transition, ordinarily assumed to emerge from identical elements, remain largely unexplored. Analyzing a general model of excitable systems with heterogeneous excitability, we find that diversity can greatly enhance optimal performance (by two orders of magnitude) when distinguishing incoming inputs. Heterogeneous systems possess a subset of specialized elements whose capability greatly exceeds that of the nonspecialized elements. We also find that diversity can yield multiple percolation, with performance optimized at tricriticality. Our results are robust in specific and more realistic neuronal systems comprising a combination of excitatory and inhibitory units, and indicate that diversity-induced amplification can be harnessed by neuronal systems for evaluating stimulus intensities.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.