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Ongoing Cortical Activity at Rest: Criticality, Multistability, and Ghost Attractors

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Deco, Gustavo, Jirsa, Viktor K.·2012·The Journal of Neuroscience

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The ongoing activity of the brain at rest, i.e., under no stimulation and in absence of any task, is astonishingly highly structured into spatiotemporal patterns. These spatiotemporal patterns, called resting state networks, display low-frequency characteristics (<0.1 Hz) observed typically in the BOLD-fMRI signal of human subjects. We aim here to understand the origins of resting state activity through modeling via a global spiking attractor network of the brain. This approach offers a realistic mechanistic model at the level of each single brain area based on spiking neurons and realistic AMPA, NMDA, and GABA synapses. Integrating the biologically realistic diffusion tensor imaging/diffusion spectrum imaging-based neuroanatomical connectivity into the brain model, the resultant emerging resting state functional connectivity of the brain network fits quantitatively best the experimentally observed functional connectivity in humans when the brain network operates at the edge of instability. Under these conditions, the slow fluctuating (<0.1 Hz) resting state networks emerge as structured noise fluctuations around a stable low firing activity equilibrium state in the presence of latent “ghost” multistable attractors. The multistable attractor landscape defines a functionally meaningful dynamic repertoire of the brain network that is inherently present in the neuroanatomical connectivity.

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Authors
Deco, G., & Jirsa, V. K.
Venue
The Journal of Neuroscience
Published
2012-03-07
Volume
32
Issue
10
Pages
3366-3375
ISSN
  • 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2401
OpenAlex
W2027063265
Cited by
699
References
47
FWCI
21.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
hybrid

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Deco, G., & Jirsa, V. K. (2012). Ongoing Cortical Activity at Rest: Criticality, Multistability, and Ghost Attractors. The Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.2523-11.2012

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