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Human brain operates near, but not at, the critical point

  • March 28, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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Human brain operates near, but not at, the critical point
A recent study published in Physical Review Letters reveals that many widely used signatures of criticality in brain data may be statistical artifacts. They propose a more robust framework that, when applied to whole-brain fMRI data, confirms the brain operates near, but not exactly at, a critical point.

Originally published at Phys.org

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