Brain Criticality - Optimizing Neural Computations

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. My name is Artem, I’m a computational neuroscience student and researcher. In this video we talk about the concept of critical point – how the brain might optimize information processing by hovering near a phase transition. Patreon: Twitter: OUTLINE: 00:00 Introduction 01:11 - Phase transitions in nature 05:05 - The Ising Model 09:33 - Correlation length and long-range communication 13:14 - Scale-free properties and power laws 20:20 - Neuronal avalanches 25:00 - The branching model 31:05 - Optimizing information transmission 34:06 - 35:41 - Recap and outro The book: REFERENCES (in no particular