Undersampled critical branching processes on small-world and random networks fail to reproduce the statistics of spike avalanches.

The power-law size distributions obtained experimentally for neuronal avalanches are an important evidence of criticality in the brain. This evidence is supported by the fact that a critical branching process exhibits the same exponent [Formula: see text]. Models at criticality have been employed to...

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Main Authors: Tiago L Ribeiro, Sidarta Ribeiro, Hindiael Belchior, Fábio Caixeta, Mauro Copelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3994033?pdf=render