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 …

This paper presents a review and critical analysis on the modeling of the dynamics of
vehicular traffic, human crowds and swarms seen as living and, hence, complex systems. It …

Understanding the origin, nature, and functional significance of complex patterns of neural
activity, as recorded by diverse electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques, is a …

Graph theory is now becoming a standard tool in system-level neuroscience. However,
endowing observed brain anatomy and dynamics with a complex network structure does not …

Network theory has unveiled the underlying structure of complex systems such as the
Internet or the biological networks in the cell. It has identified universal properties of complex …

At the macroscopic scale, the human brain can be described as a complex network of white
matter tracts integrating grey matter assemblies—the human connectome. The structure of …

The brain is in a state of perpetual reverberant neural activity, even in the absence of
specific tasks or stimuli. Shedding light on the origin and functional significance of such a …

In this study, we investigate if phase-locking of fast oscillatory activity relies on the
anatomical skeleton and if simple computational models informed by structural connectivity …

Recent results from network theory show that complexity affects several dynamical
properties of networks that favor synchronization. Here we show that synchronization in 2D …

Complex networks usually exhibit a rich architecture organized over multiple intertwined
scales. Information pathways are expected to pervade these scales reflecting structural …