ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2017
Coexistence of critical sensitivity and subcritical specificity can yield optimal population coding.
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- Improvements in task performance after practice are associated with scale-free dynamics of brain activity.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022Review
- Flexible brain dynamics underpins complex behaviours as observed in Parkinson's disease.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Criticality, Connectivity, and Neural Disorder: A Multifaceted Approach to Neural Computation.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2021Review
- Selective Participation of Single Cortical Neurons in Neuronal Avalanches.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2020Article
- Spatially resolved dendritic integration: towards a functional classification of neurons.PeerJ · 2020Article
- Between Perfectly Critical and Fully Irregular: A Reverberating Model Captures and Predicts Cortical Spike Propagation.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Article
- Operating in a Reverberating Regime Enables Rapid Tuning of Network States to Task Requirements.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
The vicinity of phase transitions selectively amplifies weak stimuli, yielding optimal sensitivity to distinguish external input. Along with this enhanced sensitivity, enhanced levels of fluctuations at criticality reduce the specificity of the response. Given that the specificity of the response is largely compromised when the sensitivity is maximal, the overall benefit of criticality for signal processing remains questionable. Here, it is shown that this impasse can be solved by heterogeneous systems incorporating
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