Quasi-universal scaling in mouse-brain neuronal activity stems from edge-of-instability critical dynamics

@article{Morales2021QuasiuniversalSI,
  title={Quasi-universal scaling in mouse-brain neuronal activity stems from edge-of-instability critical dynamics},
  author={Guillermo B. Morales and Serena Di Santo and Miguel Angel Mu{\~n}oz},
  journal={bioRxiv},
  year={2021}
}
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 dynamical state is essential to understanding how the brain transmits, processes, and stores information. An inspiring, albeit controversial, conjecture proposes that some statistical characteristics of empirically observed neuronal activity can be understood by assuming that brain networks operate in a dynamical… 
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