Being critical of criticality in the brain

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 JUN, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Beggs, John M ^a   Timme, Nicholas ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche; Criticality; Ising model; Multi electrode array; Network; Scale free; Statistical physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866347370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00163     Document Type: Article

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