Yang Tian, Zeren Tan, Hedong Hou, Guoqi Li, Aohua Cheng, Yike Qiu, Kangyu Weng, Chun Chen, Pei Sun

Network Neuroscience (2022) 6 (4): 1148–1185.

The brain criticality hypothesis is one of the most focused and controversial topics in neuroscience and biophysics. This research develops a unified framework to reformulate the physics theories of four basic types of brain criticality, ordinary criticality (OC), quasi-criticality (qC), self-organized criticality (SOC), and self-organized quasi-criticality (SOqC), into more accessible and neuroscience-related forms. For the statistic techniques used to validate the brain criticality hypothesis, we also present comprehensive explanations of them, summarize their error-prone details, and suggest possible solutions. This framework may help resolve potential controversies in studying the brain criticality hypothesis, especially those arising from the misconceptions about the theoretical foundations of brain criticality.

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