{"id":18,"date":"2012-01-19T19:01:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poil.dk\/s\/?p=18"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T18:31:03","slug":"avalanche-dynamics-of-human-brain-oscillations-relation-to-critical-branching-processes-and-temporal-correlations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poil.dk\/s\/avalanche-dynamics-of-human-brain-oscillations-relation-to-critical-branching-processes-and-temporal-correlations\/18","title":{"rendered":"Article: Avalanche dynamics of human brain oscillations: Relation to critical branching processes and temporal correlations"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/119030327\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Human Brain Mapping, Volume 29 Issue 7, Pages 770-777<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #551a8b;\"> <br style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poil.dk\" target=\"_self\">Simon-Shlomo Poil<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.vu.nl\/enf\/vanooyen\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Arjen van Ooyen\">Arjen van Ooyen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.vu.nl\/enf\/linkenkaer\" title=\"Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen\">Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cncr.nl\/enf\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Experimental Neurophysiology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cncr.nl\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR)<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>BioMag Laboratory, HUSLAB, Helsinki University Central Hospital<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> <a rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_brain\" title=\"Human brain\" class=\"zem_slink\">Human brain<\/a> oscillations fluctuate erratically in amplitude during rest and exhibit <a rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_law\" title=\"Power law\" class=\"zem_slink\">power-law<\/a> decay of temporal correlations. It has been suggested that this dynamics reflects self-organized activity near a critical state. In this framework, oscillation bursts may be interpreted as neuronal avalanches propagating in a network with a critical branching ratio. However, a direct comparison of the temporal structure of ongoing oscillations with that of activity propagation in a model network with critical connectivity has never been made. Here, we simulate <a rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Branching_process\" title=\"Branching process\" class=\"zem_slink\">branching processes<\/a> and characterize the activity propagation in terms of avalanche life-time distributions and temporal correlations. An equivalent analysis is introduced for characterizing ongoing oscillations in the alpha-frequency band recorded with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetoencephalography\" target=\"_blank\">magnetoencephalography<\/a> (MEG) during rest. We found that models with a branching ratio near the critical value of one exhibited power-law scaling in life-time distributions with similar scaling exponents as observed in the MEG data. The models reproduced qualitatively the power-law decay of temporal correlations in the human data; however, the correlations in the model appeared on time scales only up to the longest avalanche, whereas human data indicate persistence of correlations on time scales corresponding to several burst events. Our results support the idea that neuronal networks generating ongoing alpha oscillations during rest operate near a critical state, but also suggest that factors not included in the simple classical branching process are needed to account for the complex temporal structure of ongoing oscillations during rest on time scales longer than the duration of individual oscillation bursts. <em>Hum Brain Mapp 29:770\u2013777, 2008<\/em>. 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