The balance between excitation and inhibition controls the temporal organization of neuronal avalanches
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F. Lombardi, H. J. Herrmann, C. Perrone-Capano , D. Plenz 4 and L. de Arcangelis 1 Institute Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, ETH, Zürich, CH 2 Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60451-970 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 3 Biological Sciences Dept., Univ. of Naples Federico II and IGB-CNR, Napoli, Italy 4 Section on Critical Brain Dynamics, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA 5 Dept. of Information Engineering, Second University of Naples, Aversa (CE), Italy
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