Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics

D Papo, JM Buldú - Physics of Life Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Graph theory is now becoming a standard tool in system-level neuroscience. However,
endowing observed brain anatomy and dynamics with a complex network structure does not …

The role of the circadian system in fractal neurophysiological control

BR Pittman‐Polletta, FAJL Scheer, MP Butler… - Biological …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Many neurophysiological variables such as heart rate, motor activity, and neural activity are
known to exhibit intrinsic fractal fluctuations–similar temporal fluctuation patterns at different …

Complexity matching in dyadic conversation.

DH Abney, A Paxton, R Dale… - Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent studies of dyadic interaction have examined phenomena of synchronization,
entrainment, alignment, and convergence. All these forms of behavioral matching have been …

Complexity synchronization: a measure of interaction between the brain, heart and lungs

K Mahmoodi, SE Kerick, P Grigolini, PJ Franaszczuk… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Herein we address the measurable consequences of the network effect (NE) on time series
generated by different parts of the brain, heart, and lung organ-networks (ONs), which are …

Complexity synchronization of organ networks

BJ West, P Grigolini, SE Kerick, PJ Franaszczuk… - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
The transdisciplinary nature of science as a whole became evident as the necessity for the
complex nature of phenomena to explain social and life science, along with the physical …

Consciousness as a phenomenon in the operational architectonics of brain organization: criticality and self-organization considerations

AA Fingelkurts, AA Fingelkurts, CFH Neves - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we aim to show that phenomenal consciousness is realized by a particular
level of brain operational organization and that understanding human consciousness …

Complexity matching: restoring the complexity of locomotion in older people through arm-in-arm walking

ZMH Almurad, C Roume, H Blain… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The complexity matching effect refers to a maximization of information exchange, when
interacting systems share similar complexities. Additionally, interacting systems tend to …

Complexity matching in side-by-side walking

ZMH Almurad, C Roume, D Delignières - Human Movement Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Interpersonal coordination represents a very common phenomenon in daily-life activities.
Three theoretical frameworks have been proposed to account for synchronization processes …

Multifractal signatures of complexity matching

D Delignières, ZMH Almurad, C Roume… - Experimental brain …, 2016 - Springer
The complexity matching effect supposes that synchronization between complex systems
could emerge from multiple interactions across multiple scales and has been hypothesized …

Criticality and transmission of information in a swarm of cooperative units

F Vanni, M Luković, P Grigolini - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We show that the intelligence of a swarm of cooperative units (birds) emerges at criticality,
as an effect of the joint action of frequent organizational collapses and of spatial correlation …