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Coexistence of Stochastic Oscillations and Self-Organized Criticality in a Neuronal Network: Sandpile Model
Alireza Saeedi1, Mostafa Jannesari2, Shahriar Gharibzadeh3
1Department of Physics and Institute of Cognitive and Brain Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran 1983969411, Iran alireza.saeedi1988@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Self-organized criticality (SOC) and stochastic oscillations (SOs) are two theoretically contradictory phenomena that are suggested to coexist in the brain. Recently it has been shown that an accumulation-release process like sandpile dynamics can generate SOC and SOs simultaneously. We considered the effect of the network structure on this coexistence and showed that the sandpile dynamics on a small-world network can produce two power law regimes along with two groups of SOs-two peaks in the power spectrum of the generated signal simultaneously. We also showed that external stimuli in the sandpile dynamics do not affect the coexistence of SOC and SOs but increase the frequency of SOs, which is consistent with our knowledge of the brain.
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