Category: arXiv
M. B. Kitzbichler et al. (2009). "Broadband Criticality of Human Brain Network Synchronization" PLoS Comput Biol 5, 3: e1000314. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000314. Self-organized criticality is an attractive model for human brain dynamics, but there has been little direct evidence for its existence...
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Category: Plectics
The night before last, I fell asleep on the sofa in my home's art gallery. (How I ended up living in a place which has its own art gallery is a story for another day, as is the reason why...
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Category: Neuroscience
It's a beautiful 275 K in Boston today. I've got Warren Ellis's 4am podcast playing on the stereo. This would be shaping up to be a good day indeed, if NPR hadn't stomped on it by wasting airtime on Michael...
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The Radiological Society of America recently issued a press release entitled "Robotic Technology Improves Stroke Rehabilitation". It sounds like good, instantly Slashdottable fare: brain scans and robots? The only way to improve that would be to run it on Linux...
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Category: Neuroscience
Can physics tell us about ourselves? To phrase the question more narrowly: can the statistical tools which physicists have developed to understand the collective motion of large agglutinations of particles help us figure out what our brains are doing? If...
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. . . but that won't stop me....
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Because there's nothing we love so much as ourselves.
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