Can power-law scaling and neuronal avalanches arise from stochastic dynamics?

The presence of self-organized criticality in biology is often evidenced by a power-law scaling of event size distributions, which can be measured by linear regression on logarithmic axes. We show here that such a procedure does not necessarily mean that the system exhibits self-organized criticalit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jonathan Touboul, Alain Destexhe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2820096?pdf=render