ArticleFrontiers in neural circuits2021
Not One, but Many Critical States: A Dynamical Systems Perspective.
Article in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Direct and Retrograde Wave Propagation in Unidirectionally Coupled Wilson-Cowan Oscillators.Physical review letters · 2025Article
- Flow and intuition: a systems neuroscience comparison.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Pattern forming mechanisms of color vision.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Subcritical escape waves in schooling fish.Science advances · 2022Article
- Toward a Unified Analysis of the Brain Criticality Hypothesis: Reviewing Several Available Tools.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Review
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Abstract
The past decade has seen growing support for the critical brain hypothesis, i.e., the possibility that the brain could operate at or very near a critical state between two different dynamical regimes. Such critical states are well-studied in different disciplines, therefore there is potential for a continued transfer of knowledge. Here, I revisit foundations of bifurcation theory, the mathematical theory of transitions. While the mathematics is well-known it's transfer to neural dynamics leads to new insights and hypothesis.
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