The brain: What is critical about it?

@misc{citeulike:2622581, abstract = {We review the recent proposal that the most fascinating brain properties are related to the fact that it always stays close to a second order phase transition. In such conditions, the collective of neuronal groups can reliably generate robust and flexible behavior, because it is known that at the critical point there is the largest abundance of metastable states to choose from. Here we review the motivation, arguments and recent results, as well as further implications of this view of the functioning brain.}, author = {Chialvo, Dante R. and Balenzuela, Pablo and Fraiman, Daniel }, citeulike-article-id = {2622581}, eprint = {0804.0032}, keywords = {complex\_systems, neuroscience}, month = {Mar}, posted-at = {2008-04-02 09:06:54}, priority = {3}, title = {The brain: What is critical about it?}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0032}, year = {2008} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:2622581 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2622581 TI - The brain: What is critical about it? N2 - We review the recent proposal that the most fascinating brain properties are related to the fact that it always stays close to a second order phase transition. In such conditions, the collective of neuronal groups can reliably generate robust and flexible behavior, because it is known that at the critical point there is the largest abundance of metastable states to choose from. Here we review the motivation, arguments and recent results, as well as further implications of this view of the functioning brain. KW - complex_systems KW - neuroscience AU - Chialvo, Dante AU - Balenzuela, Pablo AU - Fraiman, Daniel PY - 2008/Mar/31/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0032 ER -