{
  "id": "1007.5143",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2010-07-29T08:22:57.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-07-29T08:22:57.000Z",
  "title": "Quorum Percolation in Living Neural Networks",
  "authors": [
    "Or Cohen",
    "Anna Keselman",
    "Elisha Moses",
    "María Rodríguez Martínez",
    "Jordi Soriano",
    "Tsvi Tlusty"
  ],
  "comment": "87.19.L-: Neuroscience 87.19.ll: Models of single neurons and networks 64.60.ah: Percolation http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/89/1/18008 http://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/tlusty/papers/EuroPhysLett2010.pdf",
  "journal": "O. Cohen et al 2010 EPL 89 18008",
  "doi": "10.1209/0295-5075/89/18008",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "physics.bio-ph",
    "q-bio.NC"
  ],
  "abstract": "Cooperative effects in neural networks appear because a neuron fires only if a minimal number $m$ of its inputs are excited. The multiple inputs requirement leads to a percolation model termed {\\it quorum percolation}. The connectivity undergoes a phase transition as $m$ grows, from a network--spanning cluster at low $m$ to a set of disconnected clusters above a critical $m$. Both numerical simulations and the model reproduce the experimental results well. This allows a robust quantification of biologically relevant quantities such as the average connectivity $\\kbar$ and the distribution of connections $p_k$",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2010-07-29T08:22:57.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "living neural networks",
      "quorum percolation",
      "neural networks appear",
      "multiple inputs requirement",
      "biologically relevant quantities"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "EPL (Europhysics Letters)",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Jan",
      "volume": 89,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": 18008
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010EL.....8918008C"
    }
  }
}