In order to survive in a complex environment, the human brain relies on the ability to flexibly
adapt ongoing behaviour according to intrinsic and extrinsic signals. This capability has …

Identifying the functional specialization of the brain has moved from using cognitive tasks
and resting state to using ecological relevant, naturalistic movies. We leveraged a large …

Finding precise signatures of different brain states is a central, unsolved question in
neuroscience. We reformulated the problem to quantify the 'inside out'balance of intrinsic …

Healthy brain dynamics can be understood as the emergence of a complex system far from
thermodynamic equilibrium. Brain dynamics are temporally irreversible and thus establish a …

Effective interventions for neuropsychiatric disorders may work by rebalancing the brain's
functional hierarchical organization. Here we directly investigated the effects of two different …

We show that the evidence for a local arrow of time, which is equivalent to the entropy
production in thermodynamic systems, can be decomposed. In a system with many degrees …

The relationship between the thermodynamic and computational properties of physical
systems has been a major theoretical interest since at least the 19th century. It has also …

Criticality is hypothesized as a physical mechanism underlying efficient transitions between
cortical states and remarkable information-processing capacities in the brain. While …

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that induces a shift in global consciousness states and
related brain dynamics. Portable low-density EEG systems could be used to monitor these …

What are the key topological features of connectivity critically relevant for generating the
dynamics underlying efficient cortical function? A candidate feature that has recently …