@misc{10481/69737,
year = {2021},
month = {6},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/69737},
abstract = {The human cortex is never at rest but in a state of sparse and noisy neural activity that can be detected at broadly diverse resolution scales. It has been conjectured that such a state is best described as a critical dynamical process-whose nature is still not fully understood-where scale-free avalanches of activity emerge at the edge of a phase transition. In particular, some works suggest that this is most likely a synchronization transition, separating synchronous from asynchronous phases. Here, by investigating a simplified model of coupled excitable oscillators describing the cortex dynamics at a mesoscopic level, we investigate the possible nature of such a synchronization phase transition. Within our modeling approach we conclude that-in order to reproduce all key empirical observations, such as scale-free avalanches and bistability, on which fundamental functional advantages rely-the transition to collective oscillatory behavior needs to be of an unconventional hybrid type, with mixed features of type-I and type-II excitability, opening the possibility for a particularly rich dynamical repertoire.},
organization = {Spanish Ministry and Agencia Estatal de investigacion (AEI)	FIS2017-84256-P},
organization = {Consejera de Conocimiento, Investigacin Universidad, Junta de Andaluca},
organization = {European Commission	A-FQM-175-UGR18	
SOMM17/6105/UGR},
organization = {INFN BIOPHYS project},
organization = {Cariparma through the TEACH IN PARMA project},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
title = {Hybrid-type synchronization transitions: Where incipient oscillations, scale-free avalanches, and bistability live together},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023224},
author = {Buendía, Víctor and Villegas Góngora, Pablo and Burioni, Raffaella and Muñoz Martínez, Miguel Ángel},
}