Causation in neuroscience: Keeping mechanism meaningful

LN Ross, DS Bassett - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
A fundamental goal of research in neuroscience is to uncover the causal structure of the
brain. This focus on causation makes sense, because causal information can provide …

Topodynamics of metastable brains

A Tozzi, JF Peters, AA Fingelkurts, AA Fingelkurts… - Physics of Life …, 2017 - Elsevier
The brain displays both the anatomical features of a vast amount of interconnected
topological mappings as well as the functional features of a nonlinear, metastable system at …

The N-space Episenome unifies cellular information space-time within cognition-based evolution

WB Miller Jr, JS Torday, F Baluška - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Self-referential cellular homeostasis is maintained by the measured assessment of both
internal status and external conditions based within an integrated cellular information field …

The multidimensional brain

A Tozzi - Physics of Life Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Brain activity takes place in three spatial-plus time dimensions. This rather obvious claim
has been recently questioned by papers that, taking into account the big data outburst and …

A scale-free universal relational information matrix (N-space) reconciles the information problem: N-space as the fabric of reality

WB Miller Jr - Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Cellular measurement is a crucial faculty in living systems, and exaptations are
acknowledged as a significant source of evolutionary innovation. However, the possibility …

From abstract topology to real thermodynamic brain activity

A Tozzi, JF Peters - Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2017 - Springer
Recent approaches to brain phase spaces reinforce the foremost role of symmetries and
energy requirements in the assessment of nervous activity. Changes in thermodynamic …

The human brain from above: an increase in complexity from environmental stimuli to abstractions

JF Peters, A Tozzi, S Ramanna, E İnan - Cognitive neurodynamics, 2017 - Springer
Contrary to common belief, the brain appears to increase the complexity from the perceived
object to the idea of it. Topological models predict indeed that:(a) increases in …

Relationships between short and fast brain timescales

E Déli, A Tozzi, JF Peters - Cognitive neurodynamics, 2017 - Springer
Brain electric activity exhibits two important features: oscillations with different timescales,
characterized by diverse functional and psychological outcomes, and a temporal power law …

Bold-independent computational entropy assesses functional donut-like structures in brain fMRI images

JF Peters, S Ramanna, A Tozzi, E İnan - Frontiers in Human …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
We introduce a novel method for the measurement of information level in fMRI (functional
Magnetic Resonance Imaging) neural data sets, based on image subdivision in small …

Gauge fields in the central nervous system

A Tozzi, B Sengupta, JF Peters, KJ Friston - The physics of the mind and …, 2017 - Springer
Recent advances in neuroscience highlight the complexity of the central nervous system
(CNS) and call for general, multidisciplinary theoretical approaches. The aim of this chapter …