Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics

D Papo, JM Buldú - Physics of Life Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Graph theory is now becoming a standard tool in system-level neuroscience. However,
endowing observed brain anatomy and dynamics with a complex network structure does not …

Intrinsic timescales in the visual cortex change with selective attention and reflect spatial connectivity

R Zeraati, YL Shi, NA Steinmetz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Intrinsic timescales characterize dynamics of endogenous fluctuations in neural activity.
Variation of intrinsic timescales across the neocortex reflects functional specialization of …

Machine learning at the mesoscale: a computation-dissipation bottleneck

A Ingrosso, E Panizon - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
The cost of information processing in physical systems calls for a trade-off between
performance and energetic expenditure. Here we formulate and study a computation …

Emergent mechanisms for long timescales depend on training curriculum and affect performance in memory tasks

S Khajehabdollahi, R Zeraati, E Giannakakis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in the brain and in silico excel at solving tasks with
intricate temporal dependencies. Long timescales required for solving such tasks can arise …

Lattice physics approaches for neural networks

G Bardella, S Franchini, P Pani, S Ferraina - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Modern neuroscience has evolved into a frontier field that draws on numerous disciplines,
resulting in the flourishing of novel conceptual frames primarily inspired by physics and …

Effect of Synaptic Heterogeneity on Neuronal Coordination

M Layer, M Helias, D Dahmen - PRX life, 2024 - APS
Recent advancements in measurement techniques have resulted in an increasing amount of
data on neural activities recorded in parallel, revealing largely heterogeneous correlation …

Collective behaviors of neural network regulated by the spatially distributed stimuli

Y Xie, W Huang, Y Jia, Z Ye, Y Wu - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most external stimuli, including sound, temperature, and illumination, exhibit spatially
heterogeneous, and different amplitudes of the same signal are received by neurons at …

[HTML][HTML] Neural activity in quarks language: Lattice Field Theory for a network of real neurons

G Bardella, S Franchini, L Pan, R Balzan, S Ramawat… - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Brain–computer interfaces have seen extraordinary surges in developments in recent years,
and a significant discrepancy now exists between the abundance of available data and the …

Spatio-temporal transformers for decoding neural movement control

B Candelori, G Bardella, I Spinelli, P Pani, S Ferraina… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Deep learning tools applied to high-resolution neurophysiological data have significantly
progressed, offering enhanced decoding, real-time processing, and readability for practical …

Modular Growth of Hierarchical Networks: Efficient, General, and Robust Curriculum Learning

M Hamidi, S Khajehabdollahi, E Giannakakis… - … 2024: Proceedings of …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Structural modularity is a pervasive feature of biological neural networks, which have been
linked to several functional and computational advantages. Yet, the use of modular …