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  • Complex Systems Theory
  • Computational Neuroscience

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  • Criticality describes systems at a phase transition, exhibiting enhanced information processing.
  • The hypothesis that the brain operates at criticality is gaining renewed attention.
  • Interdisciplinary research highlights links between criticality, computation, and cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review emerging trends in criticality neuroscience.
  • To highlight new data on the edge of chaos and near-criticality.
  • To propose distance to criticality as a metric for cognitive states and mental illness.

Main Methods:

  • Review of high-density data and cross-disciplinary knowledge.
  • Analysis of systems operating at or near criticality.
  • Exploration of criticality theory as a mechanistic framework.

Main Results:

  • Evidence suggests complex systems, including neural networks, exhibit properties of criticality.
  • The 'edge of chaos' and near-critical states are crucial for information processing.
  • Distance to criticality shows potential as a quantifiable measure of cognitive function.

Conclusions:

  • Criticality neuroscience offers a powerful framework for understanding emergent function.
  • This approach can elucidate efficient information processing in biological and artificial neural networks.
  • Probing criticality may yield new insights into cognitive states and neurological disorders.