Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications
2016
Session Number:B3L-C
Session:
Number:B3L-C-3
Neural Avalanches at the Edge-of-Chaos?
Karlis Kanders, Ruedi Stoop,
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Publication Date:2016/11/27
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Does the brain operate at criticality, to optimize neural computation? Literature uses different fingerprints of criticality in neural networks, leaving the relationship between them mostly unclear. Here, we compare two specific signatures of criticality, and ask whether they refer to observables at the same critical point, or to two differing phase transitions. Using a recurrent spiking neural network, we demonstrate that avalanche criticality does not necessarily lie at edge-of-chaos.