TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gros, Claudius
T1  - A devil's advocate view on 'self-organized' brain criticality
T2  - Journal of physics. Complexity
N2  - Stationarity of the constituents of the body and of its functionalities is a basic requirement for life, being equivalent to survival in first place. Assuming that the resting state activity of the brain serves essential functionalities, stationarity entails that the dynamics of the brain needs to be regulated on a time-averaged basis. The combination of recurrent and driving external inputs must therefore lead to a non-trivial stationary neural activity, a condition which is fulfiled for afferent signals of varying strengths only close to criticality. In this view, the benefits of working in the vicinity of a second-order phase transition, such as signal enhancements, are not the underlying evolutionary drivers, but side effects of the requirement to keep the brain functional in first place. It is hence more appropriate to use the term 'self-regulated' in this context, instead of 'self-organized'.
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63176
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-631760
SN  - 2632-072X
VL  - 2
IS  - 3 art. 1001
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - IOP Publ.
CY  - Bristol
ER  -