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Date: 	Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:32:07 +0100
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INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR
(Statistical Physics/Neuroscience)

Monday, 16th November - 14:30

SISSA, room 005, 0th floor

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Speaker: Dr Dante R Chialvo

Affiliation: Conicet, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Title: The brain is critical

Abstract: Systems which are near an edge between order and disorder behave
differently. This intuitive notion led several of us to argue, two decades
ago, that the most fundamental properties of the functioning brain are only
feasible if it "somehow spontaneously locates itself" at the border of an
instability. Supposedly, it is the mix of order and disorder, found
generically at criticality, that allows the brain to be a brain. In this
talk we review the motivations and then describe experimental results
supporting this hypothesis both in health and disease, at various brain
scales ranging from a few millimeters up to the entire brain cortex.

Papers and background information can be found in www.chialvo.net

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