| Title: | Can there be a physics of the brain? |
| Speaker: | Demian Cho Assistant Professor Physics Albion College |
| Abstract: |
The brain is a distributive computational system with many neurons working together to create collective patterns. In this talk, I will describe two of my current effort to understand some aspects of the brain being done in Albion.
Research done over the past couple of decades has indicated the brain may operate at the "edge of chaos," called a critical state. In biology, if the system of interest shows universal behavior, we typically try to explain it through the lens of evolution. So what are the evolutionary benefits of being in a critical state? The critical brain hypothesis posits that the brain functions near critical states to optimize its information processing capacity. In this talk, I will first introduce the hypothesis, then describe our work on synergistic information processing on a spiking neural network. The dynamics of the brain depend on the structure of the brain. Why then the brain has particular structures? What are evolutionary benefits? In the second part of the talk, I will describe the effort to address some of these questions by optimizing information processing under metabolic constraints. |
| Location: | Palenske 227 |
| Date: | 3/3/2022 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
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author = "{Demian Cho}",
title = "{Can there be a physics of the brain?}",
address = "{Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium}",
month = "{3 March}",
year = "{2022}"
}