Identification of criticality in neuronal avalanches: I. A theoretical investigation of the non-driven case

Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-26

  Taylor, Timothy J ^a   Hartley, Caroline ^b,c   Simon, Péter L ^d   Kiss, Istvan Z ^a   Berthouze, Luc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURONAL AVALANCHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 84881318748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21908567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2190-8567-3-51-26     Document Type: Article

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