: The power spectrum of brain activity is composed by peaks at characteristic frequencies superimposed to a background that decays as a power law of the frequency, [Formula: see text], with an exponent [Formula: see text] close to 1 (pink noise). This exponent is predicted to be connected with the exponent [Formula: see text] related to the scaling of the average size with the duration of avalanches of activity. "Mean field" models of neural dynamics predict exponents [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] equal or near 2 at criticality (brown noise), including the simple branching model and the fully-connected stochastic Wilson-Cowan model. We here show that a 2D version of the stochastic Wilson-Cowan model, where neuron connections decay exponentially with the distance, is characterized by exponents [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] markedly different from those of mean field, respectively around 1 and 1.3. The exponents [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] of avalanche size and duration distributions, equal to 1.5 and 2 in mean field, decrease respectively to [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. This seems to suggest the possibility of a different universality class for the model in finite dimension.
Power spectrum and critical exponents in the 2D stochastic Wilson–Cowan model / Apicella, I.; Scarpetta, S.; de Arcangelis, L.; Sarracino, A.; de Candia, A.. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 12:1(2022). [10.1038/s41598-022-26392-8]
Power spectrum and critical exponents in the 2D stochastic Wilson–Cowan model
Apicella, I.;de Arcangelis, L.;Sarracino, A.;de Candia, A.
2022
Abstract
: The power spectrum of brain activity is composed by peaks at characteristic frequencies superimposed to a background that decays as a power law of the frequency, [Formula: see text], with an exponent [Formula: see text] close to 1 (pink noise). This exponent is predicted to be connected with the exponent [Formula: see text] related to the scaling of the average size with the duration of avalanches of activity. "Mean field" models of neural dynamics predict exponents [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] equal or near 2 at criticality (brown noise), including the simple branching model and the fully-connected stochastic Wilson-Cowan model. We here show that a 2D version of the stochastic Wilson-Cowan model, where neuron connections decay exponentially with the distance, is characterized by exponents [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] markedly different from those of mean field, respectively around 1 and 1.3. The exponents [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] of avalanche size and duration distributions, equal to 1.5 and 2 in mean field, decrease respectively to [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. This seems to suggest the possibility of a different universality class for the model in finite dimension.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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