creators_name: Werner, Gerhard type: preprint datestamp: 2006-09-08 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:35 metadata_visibility: show title: Metastability, Criticality and Phase Transitions in brain and its Models subjects: comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: bio-theory full_text_status: public keywords: self-organizing criticality, phase transitions, scaling, universality, reentrant neural circuits abstract: 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. date: 2006 date_type: published refereed: FALSE referencetext: Acebron, J.A., Bonilla, L.L, Perez, C.J., Ritort, F., Spigler, R., 2005. 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