Self-organized criticality occurs in non-conservative neuronal networks during 'up' states

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 801-805

  Millman, Daniel ^a   Mihalas, Stefan ^a   Kirkwood, Alfredo ^a,b   Niebur, Ernst ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); NEURONS;

CORTICAL NEURONS; CRITICAL BEHAVIOUR; CRITICAL EXPONENT; LEAKY INTEGRATE AND FIRE NEURON; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONAL NETWORKS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77957551168     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1757     Document Type: Article

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