Speaker
Dante Chialvo
(Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences/ Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina.)
Description
The advent of novel opto-genetics technology allows the recording of brain activity with a resolution never seen before. The characterisation of these very large data sets offers new challenges as well as unique theory-testing opportunities. Here we discuss whether the spatial and temporal correlation of the collective activity of thousands of neurons are tangled as predicted by the theory of critical phenomena. The analysis shows that both the correlation length $\xi$ and the correlation time $\tau$ scale as predicted as a function of the system size. With some peculiarities that we discuss, the analysis uncovers new evidence consistent with the view that the large scale brain cortical dynamics corresponds to critical phenomena.
Primary author
Dante Chialvo
(Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences/ Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina.)
