scholarly journals Scale-Free Modulation of Resting-State Neuronal Oscillations Reflects Prolonged Brain Maturation in Humans

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (37) ◽  
pp. 13128-13136 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. A. Smit ◽  
E. J. C. de Geus ◽  
M. E. van de Nieuwenhuijzen ◽  
C. E. M. van Beijsterveldt ◽  
G. C. M. van Baal ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orestis Stylianou ◽  
Frigyes Samuel Racz ◽  
Andras Eke ◽  
Peter Mukli

While most connectivity studies investigate functional connectivity (FC) in a scale-dependent manner, coupled neural processes may also exhibit broadband dynamics, manifesting as power-law scaling of their measures of interdependence. Here we introduce the bivariate focus-based multifractal (BFMF) analysis as a robust tool for capturing such scale-free relations and use resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) recordings of 12 subjects to demonstrate its performance in reconstructing physiological networks. BFMF was employed to characterize broadband FC between 62 cortical regions in a pairwise manner, with all investigated connections being tested for true bivariate multifractality. EEG channels were also grouped to represent the activity of six resting-state networks (RSNs) in the brain, thus allowing for the analysis of within- and between- RSNs connectivity, separately. Most connections featured true bivariate multifractality, which could be attributed to the genuine scale-free coupling of neural dynamics. Bivariate multifractality showed a characteristic topology over the cortex that was highly concordant among subjects. Long-term autocorrelation was higher in within-RSNs, while the degree of multifractality was generally found stronger in between-RSNs connections. These results offer statistical evidence of the bivariate multifractal nature of functional coupling in the brain and validate BFMF as a robust method to capture such scale-independent coupled dynamics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 3517-3528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Lei ◽  
Yulin Wang ◽  
Hong Yuan ◽  
Dante Mantini

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann‐Kathrin Stock ◽  
Maik Pertermann ◽  
Moritz Mückschel ◽  
Christian Beste

NeuroImage ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 231-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Michels ◽  
Muthuraman Muthuraman ◽  
Rafael Lüchinger ◽  
Ernst Martin ◽  
Abdul Rauf Anwar ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 234 (13) ◽  
pp. 1957-1968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin von Rotz ◽  
Michael Kometer ◽  
Dario Dornbierer ◽  
Jürg Gertsch ◽  
M. Salomé Gachet ◽  
...  

IBRO Reports ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. S200
Author(s):  
Alina Tetereva ◽  
Olga Martynova

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 2667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilja Rausch ◽  
Yara Khaluf ◽  
Pieter Simoens

In many complex systems observed in nature, properties such as scalability, adaptivity, or rapid information exchange are often accompanied by the presence of features that are scale-free, i.e., that have no characteristic scale. Following this observation, we investigate the existence of scale-free features in artificial collective systems using simulated robot swarms. We implement a large-scale swarm performing the complex task of collective foraging, and demonstrate that several space and time features of the simulated swarm—such as number of communication links or time spent in resting state—spontaneously approach the scale-free property with moderate to strong statistical plausibility. Furthermore, we report strong correlations between the latter observation and swarm performance in terms of the number of retrieved items.


2012 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hardstone ◽  
Simon-Shlomo Poil ◽  
Giuseppina Schiavone ◽  
Rick Jansen ◽  
Vadim V. Nikulin ◽  
...  

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