@brain_crit

Our purpose is to discuss the role of criticality and its implications in the dynamics of neuronal populations, functional connectivity and behavior.

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1 day to BrainCrit2024! braincriticality.org. Day II: Ana Millan @CanalUGR Silvia Scarpetta @UniSalerno Joern Davidsen @UCalgary Hans Hermann @ufcinforma @ESPCI_Paris Woody Shew @UArkansas Chris Meisel @ChariteBerlin Klaus Linkenkaer-H @VUamsterdam Mattias Palva @helsinkiuni
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Just 3 days to BrainCrit2024! Zoom registration still open braincriticality.org. Day I: Pedro Mediano @imperialcollege, Miguel Muñoz @CanalUGR, Jason McLean @UChicago, Demian Battaglia @FunSyCNRS, Audrey Sederberg @GeorgiaTech, Tiago Ribeiro @NIH, Carmen Miguel @UniBarcelona
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Today is the last day for abstract submission to our Hybrid Brain Criticality Conference, Bethesda + Zoom ! braincriticality.org/ Still open two weeks for virtual poster abstracts and online only registration, but this is your last chance to be considered for oral spotlight...
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Surprise! A new Brain Criticality Hybrid meeting is taking place from November 6 to 8 in Bethesda, MD @NIH or on Zoom. Submit an abstract before October 30 to get selected for oral spotlight! Check our awesome speakers on braincriticality.org
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Keynote 2022#Day3 – Henrik JENSEN – What Happens in the Vicinity of the Critical Point and How Do You Get There? braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Keynote 2022#Day3 – Henrik JENSEN – What Happens in the Vicinity of the Critical Point and How Do...

By Henrik Jensen (London, UK). We will briefly recall the description of behaviour near a critical equilibrium phase transition, i.e., when the correlation length diverges to infinity leading to un…

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Talk 2022#Day3-8 – Pawel ROMANCZUK – Self-organization, Criticality and Collective Information Processing in Animal Groups braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day3-8 – Pawel ROMANCZUK – Self-organization, Criticality and Collective Information...

By Pawel Romanczuk (Berlin, Germany). Collective behavior of animals is a fascinating example of self-organization in biology, which together with the underlying social interactions are believed to…

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Talk 2022#Day3-7 – Mac SHINE – Computational Models Link Cellular Mechanisms of Neuromodulation to Large-Scale Neural Dynamics braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day3-7 – Mac SHINE – Computational Models Link Cellular Mechanisms of Neuromodulation to...

By Mac Shine (Sydney, Australia). Decades of neurobiological research have disclosed the diverse manners in which the response properties of neurons are dynamically modulated to support adaptive co…

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Keynote 2022#Day2 – Ad AERTSEN – Mechanisms Underlying the Generation of Spatiotemporal Sequences in Spiking Neuronal Networks braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Keynote 2022#Day2 – Ad AERTSEN – Mechanisms Underlying the Generation of Spatiotemporal Sequences...

By Ad Aertsen (Freiburg, Germany). Spatio-temporal sequences of neuronal activity are observed in many brain regions in a variety of tasks and are thought to form the basis of meaningful behavior. …

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Talk 2022#Day3-6 – Michelle GIRVAN – Brain-Inspired Machine Learning and the Advantages of Robust Critical-Like Dynamics braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day3-6 – Michelle GIRVAN – Brain-Inspired Machine Learning and the Advantages of Robust...

By Michelle Girvan (College Park, MD). Empirical evidence suggests that biological and technological networks may have evolved to operate near the tipping point between quiescence and large-scale p…

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Talk 2022#Day3-5 – Anna LEVINA – Maintenance and Selection of Neuronal States Powered by the Self-Organization braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day3-5 – Anna LEVINA – Maintenance and Selection of Neuronal States Powered by the...

By Anna Levina (Tübingen, Germany). It is widely believed that some neuronal states are better suited for computations than others. For example, closeness to the critical state at the second-order …

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Talk 2022#Day3-4 – Arvind KUMAR – Role of Input Correlations in Shaping the Trial-By-Trial Variability in a Model of Neocortex braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day3-4 – Arvind KUMAR – Role of Input Correlations in Shaping the Trial-By-Trial Variab...

By Arvind Kumar (Stockholm, Sweden). Across-trial variability is an ubiquitous feature of cortical activity. Across-trial variability is not fixed and depends on the stimulus and attentional shifts…

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Talk 2022#Day3-3 – Mauro COPELLI – Criticality and Cortical States braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day3-3 – Mauro COPELLI – Criticality and Cortical States

By Mauro Copelli (Recife, Brazil). The idea that the brain operates near a second-order phase transition has gained traction in the last two decades. Since the first experimental observation of neu…

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Talk 2022#Day3-2 – Lucilla DE ARCANGELIS – Alpha Rhythm as a Pacemaker for Network Excitability braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day3-2 – Lucilla DE ARCANGELIS – Alpha Rhythm as a Pacemaker for Network Excitability

By Lucilla De Arcangelis (Caserta, Italy). Recent evidence suggests that the alpha rhythm plays an active role in information processing, modulating behavioral and cognitive performance. However, t…

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Talk 2022#Day3-1 – Changsong ZHOU – Cost-Efficient Neural Dynamics from Sparse Irregular Spikes to Avalanches: Reconciling Multilevel Spontaneous and Evoked Activity in E-I Balanced Neural Networks at Criticality braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day3-1 – Changsong ZHOU – Cost-Efficient Neural Dynamics from Sparse Irregular Spikes to...

By Changsong Zhou (Hong Kong, PRC). The brain is highly energy consuming, therefore is under strong selective pressure to achieve cost- efficiency in both cortical connectivity and activity. Cortic…

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Talk 2022#Day2-7 – Orit PELEG – Living Orbs of Light: The Physics of Firefly Communication braincriticality.org/2022/12…
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Talk 2022#Day2-6 – Simona OLMI – Next Generation Neural Mass Models braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day2-6 – Simona OLMI – Next Generation Neural Mass Models

By Simona Olmi (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy). I will first give a brief overview of the next generation neural mass models, which represent a complete new perspective for the development of exact mean …

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Talk 2022#Day2-5 – Bradley VOYTEK – A Non-Critical Perspective on Criticality braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day2-5 – Bradley VOYTEK – A Non-Critical Perspective on Criticality

By Bradley Voytek (La Jolla, CA). Perception, action, and cognition depend upon coordinated neural activity. This coordination operates within noisy, distributed neural networks potentially poised …

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Talk 2022#Day2-4 – Samir SUWEIS – Disentangling the Critical Signatures of Neural Activity braincriticality.org/2022/12…

Talk 2022#Day2-4 – Samir SUWEIS – Disentangling the Critical Signatures of Neural Activity

By Samir Suweis (Padova, Italy). The critical brain hypothesis has emerged as an attractive framework to understand neuronal activity, but it is still widely debated. In this talk, I will first pre…

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Criticality PostDoct Openings!!: Prof. Nicoletta Petridou (EMBL/Heidelberg). Prof. Gundolf Haase/U. Graz. embl.org/groups/petridou/ biostatphys-graz.com
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Talk 2022#Day2-2 – Woodrow SHEW – Low Dimensional Criticality Embedded in High Dimensional Awake Brain Dynamics braincriticality.org/2022/12…
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