Analysis of neuronal avalanches reveals spatial temporal roadmap of humans higher cognitive function
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 12:01
in Biology & Nature
For the first time ever in a study of the living human brain as it responds to outside stimuli, an Israeli doctoral candidate recently completed a quantitative analysis of how neuronal avalanches arise from the balance between two fundamental electrochemical forces mediated on the level of neural networks -- the force that excites the propagation of electrical activity through the brain, and the force that inhibits it.