activity
20202026
most citedMutual information disentangles interactions from changing environments

41 citations · 171 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

q-bio.NC2026

Pulse desynchronization of neural populations by targeting the centroid of the limit cycle in phase space

Ramón Guevara, Marco Zenari, Giorgio Nicoletti +4

The synchronized activity of neuronal populations can lead to pathological over-synchronization in conditions such as epilepsy and Parkinson disease. Such states can be desynchroni…

q-bio.PE2024★ 20 cited

Spatially disordered environments stabilize competitive metacommunities

Prajwal Padmanabha, Giorgio Nicoletti, Davide Bernardi +4

Metapopulation models have been instrumental in demonstrating the ecological impact of landscape structure on the survival of a focal species in complex environments. However, exte…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023

Information and Criticality in Complex Stochastic Systems

Giorgio Nicoletti

This Thesis explores how tools from Statistical Physics and Information Theory can help us describe and understand complex systems. In the first part, we study the interplay betwee…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 4 cited

Optimal information gain at the onset of habituation to repeated stimuli

Giorgio Nicoletti, Matteo Bruzzone, Samir Suweis +2

Biological and living systems process information across spatiotemporal scales, exhibiting the hallmark ability to constantly modulate their behavior to ever-changing and complex e…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

Mutual information in changing environments: non-linear interactions, out-of-equilibrium systems, and continuously-varying diffusivities

Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel Maria Busiello

Biochemistry, ecology, and neuroscience are examples of prominent fields aiming at describing interacting systems that exhibit non-trivial couplings to complex, ever-changing envir…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 14 cited

Information-driven transitions in projections of underdamped dynamics

Giorgio Nicoletti, Amos Maritan, Daniel M. Busiello

Low-dimensional representations of underdamped systems often provide insightful grasps and analytical tractability. Here, we build such representations via information projections,…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 19 cited

The emergence of scale-free fires in Australia

Giorgio Nicoletti, Leonardo Saravia, Fernando Momo +2

Between 2019 and 2020, during the country's hottest and driest year on record, Australia experienced a dramatic bushfire season, with catastrophic ecological and environmental cons…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 41 cited

Mutual information disentangles interactions from changing environments

Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel Maria Busiello

Real-world systems are characterized by complex interactions of their internal degrees of freedom, while living in ever-changing environments whose net effect is to act as addition…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 33 cited

Disentangling the critical signatures of neural activity

Benedetta Mariani, Giorgio Nicoletti, Marta Bisio +3

The critical brain hypothesis has emerged as an attractive framework to understand neuronal activity, but it is still widely debated. In this work, we analyze data from a multi-ele…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 40 cited

Testing the critical brain hypothesis using a phenomelogical renormalization group

Giorgio Nicoletti, Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan

We present a systematic study to test a recently introduced phenomenological renormalization group, proposed to coarse-grain data of neural activity from their correlation matrix.…