The Critically Tuned Cortex

John M Beggs

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.10.039

The Critically Tuned Cortex

Neuron. 2019 Nov 20;104(4):623-624. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.10.039.

Author

John M Beggs¹

Affiliation

¹ Indiana University Department of Physics, 727 East 3(rd) Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7105, USA. Electronic address: jmbeggs@iu.edu.

PMID: 31751539
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.10.039

Abstract

The criticality hypothesis predicts that cortex operates near a critical point for optimum information processing. In this issue of Neuron, Ma et al. (2019) find evidence consistent with a mechanism that tunes cortex to criticality, even in the face of a strong perturbation over several days.

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Cerebral Cortex* / physiology
Neurons*