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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Neural Activity in Quarks Language: Lattice Field Theory for a Network of Real Neurons.

Giampiero Bardella, Simone Franchini, Liming Pan, Riccardo Balzan, Surabhi Ramawat, Emiliano Brunamonti, Pierpaolo Pani, Stefano Ferraina

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. 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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8 authors.

Giampiero BardellaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3731-8202
Simone FranchiniDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3304-3157
Liming PanSchool of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Riccardo BalzanLaboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques, UMR 8601, UFR Biomédicale et des Sciences de Base, Université Paris Descartes-CNRS, PRES Paris Sorbonne Cité, 75006 Paris, France.
Surabhi RamawatDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.
Emiliano BrunamontiDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5119-6950
Pierpaolo PaniDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6825-1162
Stefano FerrainaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6100-2438

Funding

EBRAINS-Italy PNRR 2023 EBRAINS-Italy PNRR 2023Sapienza University of Rome PH11715C823A9528Sapienza University of Rome RM12117A8AD27DB1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain-computer interfaces have seen extraordinary surges in developments in recent years, and a significant discrepancy now exists between the abundance of available data and the limited headway made in achieving a unified theoretical framework. This discrepancy becomes particularly pronounced when examining the collective neural activity at the micro and meso scale, where a coherent formalization that adequately describes neural interactions is still lacking. Here, we introduce a mathematical framework to analyze systems of natural neurons and interpret the related empirical observations in terms of lattice field theory, an established paradigm from theoretical particle physics and statistical mechanics. Our methods are tailored to interpret data from chronic neural interfaces, especially spike rasters from measurements of single neuron activity, and generalize the maximum entropy model for neural networks so that the time evolution of the system is also taken into account. This is obtained by bridging particle physics and neuroscience, paving the way for particle physics-inspired models of the neocortex.

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behaviorbrain connectivityentropyfield theorygenerative modelsleast actionnetwork inferenceneural networksneurophysiologystatistical physics

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PMID38920504
PMCPMC11203154

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