Episode 107 -- Symposium 2014: Power Law Dynamics in the Brain

Friday, December 6, 2013 In December 2013, The UTSA Neurosciences institute assembled a group of premier biophysicists to discuss "Power Law Dynamics in the Brain."   Recorded after the day's talks, this episode has Charlie Wilson (UTSA) leading the group in covering a wide range of topics on scale-invariant network dynamics as they relate to neural systems, including consideration of criticality and optimality. Participants: Larry Abbott (Columbia University) Jim Bower (Boston University) John Beggs (University of Indiana) Dietmar Plenz (NIMH) Charles Wilson (UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (UTSA) Duration: 35 minutes acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.