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Optimal Dynamical Range Of Excitable Networks At Criticality, Nature
 









Excerpts: A recurrent idea in the study of complex systems is that optimal
information processing is to be found near phase transitions. However, this
heuristic hypothesis has few (if any) concrete realizations where a standard and
biologically relevant quantity is optimized at criticality. Here we give a clear
example of such a phenomenon: a network of excitable elements has its
sensitivity and dynamic range maximized at the critical point of a
non-equilibrium phase transition.
Source: Optimal Dynamical Range Of Excitable Networks At Criticality[
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v2/n5/full/nphys289.html ], Osame Kinouchi,
Mauro Copelli, DOI: 10.1038/nphys289, Nature Physics 2, - pp348 - 351 (2006)

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