Latent Dynamical Variables Produce Signatures of Spatiotemporal Criticality in Large Biological Systems

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 126; no. 11; p. 118302
• Main Authors: Morrell, Mia C, Sederberg, Audrey J, Nemenman, Ilya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 19.03.2021
• Subjects: Animals; Cell Communication - physiology; Humans; Models, Neurological; Neurons - cytology; Neurons - physiology

Understanding the activity of large populations of neurons is difficult due to the combinatorial complexity of possible cell-cell interactions. To reduce the complexity, coarse graining had been previously applied to experimental neural recordings, which showed over two decades of apparent scaling i...