Avalanches in a stochastic model of spiking neurons.

Neuronal avalanches are a form of spontaneous activity widely observed in cortical slices and other types of nervous tissue, both in vivo and in vitro. They are characterized by irregular, isolated population bursts when many neurons fire together, where the number of spikes per burst obeys a power...

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Main Authors: Marc Benayoun, Jack D Cowan, Wim van Drongelen, Edward Wallace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2900286?pdf=render