INVESTIGADORES
CHIALVO Dante Renato
artículos
Título:
Emergent complex neural dynamics
Autor/es:
DANTE R CHIALVO
Revista:
NATURE PHYSICS
Editorial:
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 2010 vol. 6 p. 740 - 750
ISSN:
1745-2473
Resumen:
A large repertoire of spatiotemporal activity patterns in the brain is the basis for adaptive behaviour. Understanding the mechanism by which the brains hundred billion neurons and hundred trillion synapses manage to produce such a range of cortical configurations in a flexible manner remains a fundamental problem in neuroscience. One plausible solution is the involvement of universal mechanisms of emergent complex phenomena evident in dynamical systems poised near a critical point of a second-order phase transition. We review recent theoretical and empirical results supporting the notion that the brain is naturally poised near criticality, as well as its implications for better understanding of the brain.
