28–29 May 2026
HUN-REN Centre
Europe/Budapest timezone

Nonequilibrium critrical behavior in brain simulations

28 May 2026, 11:50
20m
HUN-REN Centre

HUN-REN Centre

1054 Budapest Alkotmány utca 29.
Lecture Session II

Speaker

Geza Odor (HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research)

Description

The critical brain hypothesis has been confirmed experimentally many times since the pioneering electrode experiments. Power law (PL) distributed neuronal avalanches were shown in neuronal recordings, in blood-oxygen-level-dependent signals,in voltage imaging, in calcium-imaging, in MEG and EEG recordings and in neuronal long-range temporal correlation among others. Whole brain simulations, based on the largest connectomes have been performed by various methods [1].
Here I show the results of solving the Shinomoto-Kuramoto model on networks of the fruit-fly and two large human connectomes, using an efficient CUDA GPU solver, which provides numerical evidence of near critical scaling in modules of these brains [2]. In particular our Hurst and beta exponents agree with those of recent fMRI data [3].
This provides an important implication for AI systems by optimizing information processing performance.
Furthermore, I show how the asymmetry in the inter-neuronal connections drives the system away from equilibrium, by violating the fluctuation-dissipation relation [4].

[1] Géza Ódor, Michael T. Gastner, Jeffrey Kelling and Gustavo Deco
Modelling on the very large-scale connectome J. Phys. Complex. 2 (2021) 045002.
[2] Géza Ódor, István Papp, Shengfeng Deng and Jeffrey Kelling
Synchronization transitions on connectome graphs with external force.
Front. Phys. 11 (2023) 1150246.
[3] Ochab, et al. Task-dependent fractal patterns of information processing in working memory. Sci Rep 12, 17866 (2022).
[4] Géza Ódor, Istvan Papp and Gustavo Deco, Fluctuation-dissipation of the Kuramoto model on fruit-fly connectomes, arXiv:2503.20708

Author

Geza Odor (HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research)

Co-authors

Prof. Gustavo Deco (Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra / ICREA Barcelona) Istvan Papp (Wigner FK) Dr Jeffrey Kelling (HZDR Dresden)

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