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TY - GEN ID - cogprints5129 UR - http://cogprints.org/5129/ A1 - Werner, MD Gerhard TI - Metastability, Criticality and Phase Transitions in brain and its Models Y1 - 2006/// N2 - This essay extends the previously deposited paper "Oscillations, Metastability and Phase Transitions" to incorporate the theory of Self-organizing Criticality. The twin concepts of Scaling and Universality of the theory of nonequilibrium phase transitions is applied to the role of reentrant activity in neural circuits of cerebral cortex and subcortical neural structures. AV - public KW - self-organizing criticality KW - phase transitions KW - scaling KW - universality KW - reentrant neural circuits ER -