Leading authorities in the field review current experimental and theoretical knowledge on criticality and brain function.

The book begins by summarizing experimental evidence for criticality and self-organized criticality in the brain. Subsequently, important breakthroughs in modeling of critical neuronal circuits and how to establish self-organized criticality in the brain are described.

A milestone publication, defining upcoming directions of research in this new field and set to become the primary source of information on the brain and criticality.

From the contents:

• Neuronal Avalanches in Cortical Networks
• Criticality and Coordination Dynamics of the Brain in Action
• Critical Brain Dynamics at Large Scale
• Temporal Long-range Correlations, Neuronal Avalanches, and Behavioral Scaling Laws
• The Turbulent Human Brain
• Thermodynamic Model of Criticality in the Cortex
• Neuronal Avalanches in the Human Brain
• Critical Slowing and Perception
• Self-organized Criticality in Neural Network Models
• Single Neuron Response Fluctuations
• Activity Dependent Model for Neuronal Avalanches
• The Neuronal Network Oscillation as a Critical Phenomenon
• Critical Exponents, Universality Class, and Thermodynamics
• Peak Variability and Optimal Performance
• Criticality at Work: How do Critical Networks Respond to Stimuli?
• Critical Dynamics in Complex Networks
• Mechanisms of Self-organized Criticality in Adaptive Networks
• Cortical Networks with Lognormal Synaptic Connectivity
• Transitions to Criticality in Neural Systems with Dynamical Synapses
• Non-conservative Critical Networks with Up and Down States
• Self-organized Criticality and Near Criticality in Neural Networks
• Neural Dynamics: Criticality, Cooperation, and Avalanches
• Complex Networks: From Social Crises to Neuronal Avalanches
• The Dynamics of Neuromodulation