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 …

Colloquium: Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

MA Munoz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018‏ - APS
A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Criticality in the brain: A synthesis of neurobiology, models and cognition

L Cocchi, LL Gollo, A Zalesky, M Breakspear - Progress in neurobiology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Cognitive function requires the coordination of neural activity across many scales, from
neurons and circuits to large-scale networks. As such, it is unlikely that an explanatory …

Why brain criticality is clinically relevant: a sco** review

V Zimmern - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
The past 25 years have seen a strong increase in the number of publications related to
criticality in different areas of neuroscience. The potential of criticality to explain various …

Criticality between cortical states

AJ Fontenele, NAP De Vasconcelos, T Feliciano… - Physical review …, 2019‏ - APS
Since the first measurements of neuronal avalanches, the critical brain hypothesis has
gained traction. However, if the brain is critical, what is the phase transition? For several …

Self-organized criticality as a fundamental property of neural systems

J Hesse, T Gross - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2014‏ - frontiersin.org
The neural criticality hypothesis states that the brain may be poised in a critical state at a
boundary between different types of dynamics. Theoretical and experimental studies show …

Multi-timescale neural dynamics for multisensory integration

D Senkowski, AK Engel - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024‏ - nature.com
Carrying out any everyday task, be it driving in traffic, conversing with friends or playing
basketball, requires rapid selection, integration and segregation of stimuli from different …

Moment-to-moment brain signal variability: a next frontier in human brain map**?

DD Garrett, GR Samanez-Larkin… - Neuroscience & …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Neuroscientists have long observed that brain activity is naturally variable from moment-to-
moment, but neuroimaging research has largely ignored the potential importance of this …

Being critical of criticality in the brain

JM Beggs, N Timme - Frontiers in physiology, 2012‏ - frontiersin.org
Relatively recent work has reported that networks of neurons can produce avalanches of
activity whose sizes follow a power law distribution. This suggests that these networks may …

The functional benefits of criticality in the cortex

WL Shew, D Plenz - The neuroscientist, 2013‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Rapidly growing empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that the cortex operates near
criticality. Although the confirmation of this hypothesis would mark a significant advance in …