@misc{10481/78252, year = {2022}, month = {11}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78252}, abstract = {The branching process is the minimal model for propagation dynamics, avalanches, and criticality, broadly used in neuroscience. A simple extension of it, adding inhibitory nodes, induces a much-richer phenomenology, including an intermediate phase, between quiescence and saturation, that exhibits the key features of “asynchronous states” in cortical networks. Remarkably, in the inhibition-dominated case, it exhibits an extremely rich phase diagram that captures a wealth of nontrivial features of spontaneous brain activity, such as collective excitability, hysteresis, tilted avalanche shapes, and partial synchronization, allowing us to rationalize striking empirical findings within a common and parsimonious framework.}, organization = {Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung}, organization = {Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung}, organization = {FEDER}, organization = {European Regional Development Fund A-FQM-175-UGR18, FPU19/03887, P20-00173 ERDF}, organization = {Agencia Estatal de Investigación MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, PID2020-113681GB-I00}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {Excitatory-inhibitory branching process: A parsimonious view of cortical asynchronous states, excitability, and criticality}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L042027}, author = {Corral López, Roberto and Buendía, Víctor and Muñoz Martínez, Miguel Ángel}, }