How critical is brain criticality?

J O'Byrne, K Jerbi - Trends in Neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
Criticality is the singular state of complex systems poised at the brink of a phase transition
between order and randomness. Such systems display remarkable information-processing …

Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model

K Kaefer, F Stella, BL McNaughton… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The spontaneous replay of patterns of activity related to past experiences and memories is a
striking feature of brain activity, as is the coherent activation of sets of brain areas …

[HTML][HTML] Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish

L Smirnova, BS Caffo, DH Gracias, Q Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in human stem cell-derived brain organoids promise to replicate critical
molecular and cellular aspects of learning and memory and possibly aspects of cognition in …

Functional neuronal circuitry and oscillatory dynamics in human brain organoids

T Sharf, T Van Der Molen, SMK Glasauer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human brain organoids replicate much of the cellular diversity and developmental anatomy
of the human brain. However, the physiology of neuronal circuits within organoids remains …

A neurophysiological basis for aperiodic EEG and the background spectral trend

N Brake, F Duc, A Rokos, F Arseneau, S Shahiri… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Electroencephalograms (EEGs) display a mixture of rhythmic and broadband fluctuations,
the latter manifesting as an apparent 1/f spectral trend. While network oscillations are known …

From mechanisms to markers: novel noninvasive EEG proxy markers of the neural excitation and inhibition system in humans

J Ahmad, C Ellis, R Leech, B Voytek, P Garces… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
Brain function is a product of the balance between excitatory and inhibitory (E/I) brain
activity. Variation in the regulation of this activity is thought to give rise to normal variation in …

Complex activity and short-term plasticity of human cerebral organoids reciprocally connected with axons

T Osaki, T Duenki, SYA Chow, Y Ikegami… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
An inter-regional cortical tract is one of the most fundamental architectural motifs that
integrates neural circuits to orchestrate and generate complex functions of the human brain …

Communication dynamics in complex brain networks

A Avena-Koenigsberger, B Misic… - Nature reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Neuronal signalling and communication underpin virtually all aspects of brain activity and
function. Network science approaches to modelling and analysing the dynamics of …

Avalanches and edge-of-chaos learning in neuromorphic nanowire networks

J Hochstetter, R Zhu, A Loeffler, A Diaz-Alvarez… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The brain's efficient information processing is enabled by the interplay between its neuro-
synaptic elements and complex network structure. This work reports on the neuromorphic …

A free energy principle for a particular physics

K Friston - arxiv preprint arxiv:1906.10184, 2019 - arxiv.org
This monograph attempts a theory of every'thing'that can be distinguished from other things
in a statistical sense. The ensuing statistical independencies, mediated by Markov blankets …