Critical brain networks

Abstract

Highly correlated brain dynamics produces synchronized states with no behavioral value, while weakly correlated dynamics prevents information flow. We discuss the idea put forward by Per Bak that the working brain stays at an intermediate (critical) regime characterized by power-law correlations.

Contribution to the Niels Bohr Summer Institute on Complexity and Criticality (2003); to appear in a Per Bak Memorial Issue of PHYSICA A

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