Topic: testable predictions

Woodrow Shew and Keith Hengen assess whether critical dynamics form a homeostatic target for brain activity. They discuss proposed signatures and testable predictions, controversies in earlier studies, and possible relationships among criticality, sleep and neural manifolds, drawing on their review of the experimental literature.

Brain stimulation is an increasingly popular tool for both research and clinical use. However, the effects of brain stimulation are not entirely known, and neither are the mechanisms by which brain stimulation changes brain activity. One way to efficiently study the relationship between the brain and neuromodulation is to use computational models. Computational models allow researchers to run realistic simulations that show how the brain is influenced by neuromodulation or predict what brain stimulation will change in brain activity and/or behaviour. This talk will introduce how Wilson Cowan,