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It has been postulated that the brain operates in a self-organized critical state that brings multiple benefits, such as optimal sensitivity to input. Thus far, self-organized criticality has typically been depicted as a one-dimensional…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-08 Silja Sormunen , Thilo Gross , Jari Saramäki

The complexity of neural dynamics stems in part from the complexity of the underlying anatomy. Yet how the organization of white matter architecture constrains how the brain transitions from one cognitive state to another remains unknown.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-11 Shi Gu , Richard F. Betzel , Matthew Cieslak , Philip R. Delio , Scott T. Grafton , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

In the process of evolution, the brain has achieved such perfection that artificial intelligence systems do not have and which needs its own mathematics. The concept of cognitome, introduced by the academician K.V. Anokhin, as the cognitive…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-15 Evgenii Vityaev

We consider the implications of the mathematical analysis of neurone-to-neurone dynamical complex networks. We show how the dynamical behaviour of small scale strongly connected networks lead naturally to non-binary information processing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-15 Peter Grindrod

The critical brain hypothesis posits that neural systems operate near a phase transition, optimizing the processing of information. While scale invariance and non-Gaussian dynamics--hallmarks of criticality--have been observed in brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-16 Gustavo G. Cambrainha , Daniel M. Castro , Nivaldo A. P. de Vasconcelos , Pedro Carelli , Mauro Copelli

We develop a quantum theoretical formalism to derive the brane gravity from its origin -- brane-generating dynamics in higher dimensions. Based on it, we discuss characteristic properties of the brane induced gravity, as well as brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Keiichi Akama

For complex life to evolve, a sophisticated nervous system for handling its complexities was fundamental. The demand resulted in the emergence of brain's computational facility, the neuronal network. This facet of the brain is attested…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-16 Jahan N. Schad

Technological advances have dramatically expanded our ability to probe multi-neuronal dynamics and connectivity in the brain. However, our ability to extract a simple conceptual understanding from complex data is increasingly hampered by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-31 Peiran Gao , Surya Ganguli

In functionally complex systems, higher-order connectivity is often revealed in the underlying geometry of networked units. Furthermore, such systems often show signatures of self-organized criticality, a specific type of non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-11 Bosiljka Tadic , Roderick Melnik

We present a new paradigm in the study of brain mental dynamics on the basis of the stable transient activity neural networks observed in experiments. This new approach is in contrast to traditional system analysis usually adopted in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-09-08 Mikhail I. Rabinovich , Mehmet K. Muezzinoglu

The "criticality hypothesis", based on observed scale-free correlations in neural activity, posits that the brain operates at a critical point of transition between two phases. However, the validity of this hypothesis is still debated.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Jay Sun , Chesson Sipling , Yuan-Hang Zhang , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Finding general principles underlying brain function has been appealing to scientists. Indeed, in some branches of science like physics and chemistry (and to some degree biology) a general theory often can capture the essence of a wide…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-22 Shervin Safavi

The brain is immensely complex, with diverse components and dynamic interactions building upon one another to orchestrate a wide range of functions and behaviors. Understanding patterns of these complex interactions and how they are…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-06 Suman Kulkarni , Dani S. Bassett

The human connectome at the level of fiber tracts between brain regions has been shown to differ in patients with brain disorders compared to healthy control groups. Nonetheless, there is a potentially large number of different network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-16 Marcus Kaiser

We seek general principles of the structure of the cellular collective activity associated with conscious awareness. Can we obtain evidence for features of the optimal brain organization that allows for adequate processing of stimuli and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-27 D. M. Mateos , R. Wennberg , R. Guevara , J. L. Perez Velazquez

What is the reason for complex dynamical patterns registered from real biological neuronal networks? Noise and dynamical reconfiguring of a network (functional/dynamic connectome) were proposed as possible answers. In this case study, we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-16 A. Vidybida , O. Shchur

Adaptive network is a powerful presentation to describe different real-world phenomena. However, current models often neglect higher-order interactions (beyond pairwise interactions) and diverse adaptation types (cooperative and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-24 S. Nirmala Jenifer , Dibakar Ghosh , Paulsamy Muruganandam

At the point of a second order phase transition also termed as a critical point, systems display long range order and their macroscopic behaviors are independent of the microscopic details making up the system. Due to these properties, it…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-18 Vaibhav Wasnik

Cognition is supported by neurophysiological processes that occur both in local anatomical neighborhoods and in distributed large-scale circuits. Recent evidence from network control theory suggests that white matter pathways linking…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-30 John D. Medaglia , Shi Gu , Fabio Pasqualetti , Rebecca L. Ashare , Caryn Lerman , Joseph Kable , Danielle S. Bassett

Information flow provides a natural measure for the causal interaction between dynamical events. This study extends our previous rigorous formalism of componentwise information flow to the bulk information flow between two complex…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-30 X. San Liang