Can power-law scaling and neuronal avalanches arise from stochastic dynamics?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Touboul, Jonathan ^a,b   Destexhe, Alain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Unite de Neurosciences Integratives et Computationnelles   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; ELECTRODE; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; STATISTICS; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77949359925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008982     Document Type: Article

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