Learning as a phenomenon occurring in a critical state

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3977-3981

  De Arcangelis, Lucilla ^a,b   Herrmann, Hans J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Scale free network; Scaling; Self organized criticality; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LEARNING; LOGIC; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 77749239921     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912289107     Document Type: Article

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