Self-organized criticality in cortical assemblies occurs in concurrent scale-free and small-world networks

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Massobrio, Paolo ^a   Pasquale, Valentina ^b   Martinoia, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84934876551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10578     Document Type: Article

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