{"id":159779,"date":"2023-03-07T23:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T05:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/brain-criticality-optimizing-neural-computations"},"modified":"2023-03-07T23:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T05:24:59","slug":"brain-criticality-optimizing-neural-computations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/brain-criticality-optimizing-neural-computations","title":{"rendered":"Brain Criticality \u2014 Optimizing Neural Computations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brain Criticality - Optimizing Neural Computations\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vwLb3XlPCB4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To try everything Brilliant has to offer\u2014free\u2014for a full 30 days, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/brilliant.org\/ArtemKirsanov\/\">http:\/\/brilliant.org\/ArtemKirsanov\/<\/a>.<br \/> The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant\u2019s annual premium subscription.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Artem, I\u2019m a computational neuroscience student and researcher. In this video we talk about the concept of critical point \u2013 how the brain might optimize information processing by hovering near a phase transition.<\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/artemkirsanov\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/artemkirsanov<\/a>.<br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtemKRSV\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtemKRSV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OUTLINE:<br \/> 00:00 Introduction.<br \/> 01:11 \u2014 Phase transitions in nature.<br \/> 05:05 \u2014 The Ising Model.<br \/> 09:33 \u2014 Correlation length and long-range communication.<br \/> 13:14 \u2014 Scale-free properties and power laws.<br \/> 20:20 \u2014 Neuronal avalanches.<br \/> 25:00 \u2014 The branching model.<br \/> 31:05 \u2014 Optimizing information transmission.<br \/> 34:06 \u2014 Brilliant.org.<br \/> 35:41 \u2014 Recap and outro.<\/p>\n<p>The book: <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262544030\/the-cortex-and-the-critical-point\/\">https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262544030\/the-cortex-and-the-critical-point\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>REFERENCES (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/brain-criticality-optimizing-neural-computations\">Continue reading \u201cBrain Criticality \u2014 Optimizing Neural Computations\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To try everything Brilliant has to offer\u2014free\u2014for a full 30 days, visit http:\/\/brilliant.org\/ArtemKirsanov\/. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant\u2019s annual premium subscription. My name is Artem, I\u2019m a computational neuroscience student and researcher. In this video we talk about the concept of critical point \u2013 how the brain might optimize information [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}