How critical is brain criticality?

J O'Byrne, K Jerbi - Trends in Neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
Criticality is the singular state of complex systems poised at the brink of a phase transition
between order and randomness. Such systems display remarkable information-processing …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in physical reservoir computing: A review

G Tanaka, T Yamane, JB Héroux, R Nakane… - Neural Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Reservoir computing is a computational framework suited for temporal/sequential data
processing. It is derived from several recurrent neural network models, including echo state …

Physical reservoir computing—an introductory perspective

K Nakajima - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding the fundamental relationships between physics and its information-
processing capability has been an active research topic for many years. Physical reservoir …

Colloquium: Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

MA Munoz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Criticality in the brain: A synthesis of neurobiology, models and cognition

L Cocchi, LL Gollo, A Zalesky, M Breakspear - Progress in neurobiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Cognitive function requires the coordination of neural activity across many scales, from
neurons and circuits to large-scale networks. As such, it is unlikely that an explanatory …

Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics

D Toker, I Pappas, JD Lendner… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Mounting evidence suggests that during conscious states, the electrodynamics of the cortex
are poised near a critical point or phase transition and that this near-critical behavior …

Nonlinearity in memristors for neuromorphic dynamic systems

K Yang, J Joshua Yang, R Huang, Y Yang - Small Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As semiconductor technology enters the more than Moore era, there exists an apparent
contradiction between the rapidly growing demands for data processing and the visible …

The role of population structure in computations through neural dynamics

A Dubreuil, A Valente, M Beiran… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Neural computations are currently investigated using two separate approaches: sorting
neurons into functional subpopulations or examining the low-dimensional dynamics of …

Artificial intelligence and advanced materials

C López - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining strength, and materials science can both contribute to
and profit from it. In a simultaneous progress race, new materials, systems, and processes …

Design of deep echo state networks

C Gallicchio, A Micheli, L Pedrelli - Neural Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we provide a novel approach to the architectural design of deep Recurrent
Neural Networks using signal frequency analysis. In particular, focusing on the Reservoir …