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CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 105-111Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2019.08.002
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Twenty-five years ago, Dunkelmann and Radons (1994) showed that neural networks can self-organize to a critical state. In models, the critical state offers a number of computational advantages. Thus this hypothesis, and in particular the experimental work by Beggs and Plenz (2003), has triggered an avalanche of research, with thousands of studies referring to it. Nonetheless, experimental results are still contradictory. How is it possible, that a hypothesis has attracted active research for decades, but nonetheless remains controversial? We discuss the experimental and conceptual controversy, and then present a parsimonious solution that (i) unifies the contradictory experimental results, (ii) avoids disadvantages of a critical state, and (iii) enables rapid, adaptive tuning of network properties to task requirements.
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