We analyze the behavior of bursts of neural activity in the Kinouchi-Copelli model, originally conceived to explain information processing issues in sensory systems. We show that, at a critical condition, power-law behavior emerges for the size and duration of the bursts (avalanches), with exponents experimentally observed in real biological systems.
@article{arxiv.1112.5913,
title = {Dynamical aspects of Kinouchi-Copelli model: emergence of avalanches at criticality},
author = {T. S. Mosqueiro and C. Akimushkin and L. P. Maia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5913},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Paper accepted for Brazilian Conference on Dynamics, Control and Applications (oral presentation and poster). 4 pages, 5 figures